Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film by Miriam Hansen

Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film

Miriam Hansen

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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--vaudev...

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