Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:47:59 -0500
From: johanna-AT-redriverok.com
Subject: Re:  early film & colonial studies


Yes, and you might add to these selections from VIEWING POSITIONS Miriam
Hansen's "Early Cinema, Late Cinema: Transformations of the Public Sphere".
It would be helpful to read William's introduction as well, which provides a
helpful overview of how the essays in her collection (re)write spectatorship
studies.

Johanna Schmertz

At 05:48 PM 10/6/98 EDT, you wrote:
>You might try Linda Williams' anthology VIEWING POSITIONS to begin with-- it
>includes an article by Jonathan Crary titled "Modernizing Vision" as well as
>an essay by Vanessa Schwartz titled "Cinematic Spectatorship before the
>Apparatus:  The Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de Siecle Paris" and another
>by Tom Gunning called "An Aesthetic of Astonishment." These works have less to
>do with the postcolonial trajectory that you mention, but go a long way toward
>working out an historical account of the spectular position within the period
>you're concerned with.
>
>--B
>
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