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Babel and Babylon : Spectatorship in American Silent Film
Babel and Babylon Spectatorship in American Silent Film
Author: Miriam Hansen
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674058316
ISBN-10: 0674058313
Publication Date: 12/8/2006
Pages: 390
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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