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Babel and Babylon: spectatorship in American silent film
Miriam Hansen-
Frontmatter
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Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life (page 1)
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I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship (page 21)
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1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood (page 23)
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2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models (page 60)
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3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere (page 90)
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II Babel in Babylon: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) (page 127)
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4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition (page 129)
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5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address (page 141)
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6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History (page 163)
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7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language (page 173)
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8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing (page 188)
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9 Riddles of Maternity (page 199)
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10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue (page 218)
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III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926) (page 243)
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11 Male Star, Female Fans (page 245)
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12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification (page 269)
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Notes (page 297)
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Illustration Credits (page 366)
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Index (page 367)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JSocH | 27.1 (Autumn 1993): 149-152 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3789135 |
JAH | 78.4 (Mar. 1992): 1471-1472 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2079430 |
SUB | 22.1 (1993): 102-104 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3684737 |
FQ | 47.1 (Autumn 1993): 39-40 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213109 |
SIG | 22.1 (Autumn 1996): 248-254 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175059 |
AHR | 97.2 (Apr. 1992): 631-632 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2165894 |
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Published: c1991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
- 9780674058316 (paper)
- 9780674058309 (hardcover)
- 9780674038295 (ebook)