Babel and Babylon : spectatorship in American silent film /
Offers a perspective on American film by tying the growth of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Focusing on silent films, this text examines how the spectator concept evolved, integrating ethnically, socially and sexually differentiated audiences. Although cinema wa...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1991.
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Obsah:
- Rebuilding the tower of Babel : the emergence of spectatorship
- A cinema in search of a spectator : film-viewer relations before Hollywood
- Early audiences : myths and models
- Chameleon and catalyst : the cinema as an alternative public sphere
- Babel in Babylon : D.W. Griffith's intolerance (1916)
- Reception, textual system, and self-definition
- "A radiant crazy-quilt" : patterns of narration and address
- Genesis, causes, concepts of history
- Film history, archaeology, universal language
- Hieroglyphics, figurations of writing
- Riddles of maternity
- Crisis of femininity, fantasies of rescue
- The return of Babylon : Rudolph Valentino and female spectatorship (1924-1926)
- Male star, female fans
- Patterns of vision, scenarios of identification.