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Babel and Babylon : Spectatorship in American Silent Film.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1991Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038295
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Babel and BabylonDDC classification:
  • 791.43/0973/09041
LOC classification:
  • PN1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life -- I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship -- 1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood -- 2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models -- 3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere -- II Babel in Babylon: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) -- 4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition -- 5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address -- 6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History -- 7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language -- 8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing -- 9 Riddles of Maternity -- 10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue -- III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926) -- 11 Male Star, Female Fans -- 12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm--as one of the new industry's strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life -- I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship -- 1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood -- 2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models -- 3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere -- II Babel in Babylon: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) -- 4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition -- 5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address -- 6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History -- 7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language -- 8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing -- 9 Riddles of Maternity -- 10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue -- III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926) -- 11 Male Star, Female Fans -- 12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm--as one of the new industry's strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption.

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