Crowd Scenes : Movies and Mass Politics /

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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Main Author: Tratner, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.