Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ408314
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Reframing "The Italian": Questions of Audience Address in Early Cinema.
Keil, Charlie
Journal of Film and Video, v42 n1 p36-48 Spr 1990
Analyzes "The Italian" (1915), an early "immigrant" film, examining its problematic relation to questions of working-class and middle-class audience composition. Shows how this film reveals that the creation of narratives suitable for diverse audiences requires continuous readjustment of an adequate mode of address. (MM)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Film Criticism, Films, Immigrants, Middle Class, Narration, Working Class
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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