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1st ed. |
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1 online resource (vii, 161 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index. |
| Contents |
Movies and the history of crowd psychology -- Collective spectatorship -- Constructing public institutions and private sexuality : the birth of a nation and Intolerance -- The passion of mass politics in the most popular love stories -- Loving the crowd : transformations of gender in early Soviet and Nazi films -- From love of the state to the state of love : Fritz Lang's move from Weimar to Hollywood. |
| Summary |
The movies and the masses erupted on the world stage together. In a few decades around the turn of the twentieth century, millions of persons who rarely could afford a night at the theater and had never voted in an election became regular paying customers at movie palaces and proud members of new political parties. The question of how to represent these new masses fascinated and plagued politicians and filmmakers alike. Michael Tratner examines the representations of masses--the crowd scenes--in Hollywood films from The Birth of a Nation through such popular love stories as Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music, and Dr. Zhivago. He then contrasts these with similar scenes in early Soviet and Nazi films. What emerges is a political debate being carried out in filmic style. In both sets of films, the crowd is represented as a seething cauldron of emotions. |
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Print version record. |
| Language |
In English. |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Subject |
Crowds in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
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Media studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Crowds in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01902940
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01027353
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Masse
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Masse -- (Soziol.) -- Motiv -- Film.
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Film -- Motiv -- Masse (Soziol.)
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Massenpsychologie -- Film.
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Film -- Massenpsychologie.
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Film.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tratner, Michael. Crowd scenes. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008005864 (OCoLC)182529037 |
| ISBN |
9780823280780 (electronic bk.) |
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0823280780 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823229017 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0823229017 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780823229024 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0823229025 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.26530/oapen_626974 doi |
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CHNEW 000950587 |
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CHVBK 483517410 |
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GBVCP 1014944112 |
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GBVCP 896604136 |
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AU@ 000060745255 |
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AU@ 000066382617 |
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