From: BStater-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:48:46 EDT
Subject: Re:  early film & colonial studies


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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