Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life 1
5. I Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship
6. 1 A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood 23
7. 2 Early Audiences: Myths and Models 60
8. 3 Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere 90
9. II Babel in Babylon: D. W Griffith's Intolerance (1916)
10. 4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition 129
11. 5 "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address 141
12. 6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History 163
13. 7 Film History, Archaeology, Universal Language 173
14. 8 Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing 188
15. 9 Riddles of Maternity 199
16. 10 Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue 218
17. III The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926)
18. 11 Male Star, Female Fans 245
19. 12 Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification 269
20. Notes 297
21. Illustration Credits 366
22. Index 367