On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Cal wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:53:08 -0600 Chad Dell said: > >Though I don't recall a direct reference, Mary Carbine's work on Black-owned > >and operated cinemas in Chicago in the 1920s is an illuminating work in that > >area. She write of the jazz bands that accompanied the silent films, > >creating quite a different spectatorial experience altogether. > > Does anyone have a more complete cite to work on Black exhibition in any > era? > Mary Carbine. "The Finest Outside the Loop": Motion Picture Exhibition in Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1905-1928." Camera Obscura 23 (May 1990): 9-41. also re"spectatorship see Miriam Hansen. BAbel & Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film. Cambridge: harvard University Press, 1991. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]