- Paperback: 390 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (6 May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674058313
- ISBN-13: 978-0674058316
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm
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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 A bold and strikingly original exploration...Hansen has produced a work that has revolutionized the concept of spectatorship in American silent film and that will be an essential tool for historians and film scholars alike. -- Leslie Fishbein American Historical Review An innovative look at the role and impact of class and gender, Hansen's work significantly realigns many of the issues that have traditionally dominated the study of American silent film. -- Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. Journal of American History Hansen's expansive, detailed, and exceptionally erudite study assesses key instances when cinema spectatorship opened up the possibility of articulating the contradictions of female experience. -- Constance Balides Signs
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Miriam Hansen offers an original perspective on American film by tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, she explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm - as one of the new industry's strategies to integrate ethnically, socially and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption.
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Superb tour-de-force of early cinema, 1 May 2002
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This review is from: Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Paperback)
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.
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Not just relevant to film, 29 Feb 2008
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This review is from: Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Paperback)
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.
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Invaluable, 22 Jan 2003
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This review is from: Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (Paperback)
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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