Crowd Scenes
Movies and Mass Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19939204 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Tratner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 161 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Crowd scenes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26530/oapen_626974 |
| OpenAlex | W4210261087 |
| ISBN | 9780823229017 |
| Open Library | OL16490644M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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. \n \nMichael 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
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Collectivism · Computer graphics (images) · Film genre · Hollywood · Individualism · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Crowds in motion pictures · Motion pictures · Political aspects · Political aspects of Motion pictures
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |