Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film By Miriam Hansen
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1994-03-15 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0674058313 | PDF | 18 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 1994-03-15 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 0674058313 | PDF | 18 MB
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…
