TY - BOOK ID - 99595117 TI - Crowd Scenes: Movies and Mass Politics PY - 2008 SN - 9780823280780 0823280780 9780823229017 0823229017 9780823229024 0823229025 PB - Fordham University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Crowds in motion pictures. KW - Political aspects. KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:99595117 AB - 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. ER -