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Babel and Babylon: spectatorship in American silent film

Miriam Hansen
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life (page 1)
  • I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship (page 21)
    • 1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood (page 23)
    • 2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models (page 60)
    • 3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere (page 90)
  • II Babel in Babylon: D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) (page 127)
    • 4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition (page 129)
    • 5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address (page 141)
    • 6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History (page 163)
    • 7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language (page 173)
    • 8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing (page 188)
    • 9 Riddles of Maternity (page 199)
    • 10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue (page 218)
  • III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926) (page 243)
    • 11 Male Star, Female Fans (page 245)
    • 12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification (page 269)
  • Notes (page 297)
  • Illustration Credits (page 366)
  • Index (page 367)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674058316 (paper)
  • 9780674058309 (hardcover)
  • 9780674038295 (ebook)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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