[Ebook free] Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film
♥ Miriam Hansen ♥
| #914154 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1994-03-15 | 1994-04-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.80 x6.14l,1.26 | File Name: 0674058313 | 390 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not just relevant to film|By Seaboard Lit Prof|As other reviewers have noted, this study is a terrific analysis of how early film could be an open, more interactive medium. But it is valuable for more than its contribution to the history of film. Hansen combines her study of the history of film with two other areas--1) empirical study of the reception of early film (the opport||Babel and Babylon is a far-reaching book that leads us to new questions about history and theory. It amply proves that early cinema can be one of the most intriguing and productive domains of film study today. (Dana Polan Film Criticism)
Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a “film spectator” emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown―vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds―a particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of film style, as a means of predicting the reception of films on a mass scale. In Babel and Babylon, Mir...
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