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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 po...
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oapen-20.500.12657-315862023-01-31T18:45:53Z Crowd Scenes Tratner, Michael Media and Communications Adolf Hitler Cinema of the United States Hollywood Individualism Motion Picture Production Code Nazism Private sphere Social order bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 15:13:30 2020-04-01T13:40:49Z 2020-04-01T13:40:49Z 2008 book 626974 OCN: 654349791 9780823229017 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31586 eng application/pdf n/a 626974.pdf Fordham University Press 10.26530/oapen_626974 100596 10.26530/oapen_626974 f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823229017 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100596 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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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