- Hardcover: 390 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (10 July 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674058305
- ISBN-13: 978-0674058309
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.5 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,951,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Superb tour-de-force of early cinema
1 May 2002
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While some of the academic language may not be familiar to all readers, this is a superb account of early cinema that bridges the divide between film history and film theory. Hansen's argument that early cinema possessed a fundamentally different model of spectatorship--an interactive and collective one--is lucidly articulated, in addition to being wholly provocative for understanding what it means to go to the movies now. This book altered my sense of my own viewing and moviegoing practices today. An excellent book that discusses film in new ways, Babel and Babylon is both an absorbing and a fascinating reading experience.
Not just relevant to film
29 Feb 2008
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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 opportunities for collective sense-making by populations such as women and new immigrant groups), and 2) theoretical study of the way film changes our ideas about the public sphere.
It is the methodological richness of this book that makes it such a powerful work. Readers are offered astute, inventive close readings of films, informed discussions about historical reception, and cutting-edge ideas about what a mass-culture medium like film might mean for our ideas of public reason.
It is the methodological richness of this book that makes it such a powerful work. Readers are offered astute, inventive close readings of films, informed discussions about historical reception, and cutting-edge ideas about what a mass-culture medium like film might mean for our ideas of public reason.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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22 Jan 2003
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This is one of the best books on early cinema written by one of the best film theorists/historians on spectatorship.
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