TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tratner,Michael
TI  - Crowd Scenes: Movies and Mass Politics 
SN  - 9780823229017
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
KW  - Language arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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 massesâ€"the crowd scenesâ€"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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/3f1e5b47-a5e7-4c91-a0c6-49f97e49a88b
ER  -