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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". This work then contrasts these with similar scenes in early Soviet and Nazi films.

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"...Provide[s] fine, nuanced analyses of individual films but also absolutely convince[s] the reader that much more rewarding work taking this approach remains to be done. Highly Recommended." -Choice "[A] scholarly investigation..." -The Catholic World "An original, important and compelling study of how films have represented crowds and how these depictions in turn reflected, mobilized, made available or frustrated mass movements at key moments in cultural history." -- -James Morrison Claremont McKenna College "An excellent study, packed with original, illuminating insights about both particular films and cinema in general." -- -Lesley Brill Wayne State University

Crowd Scenes

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 30 April 2008
      ISBN-13 9780823229024
      978-0823229024
      ISBN-10 0823229025
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      Literature: history and criticism Film history, theory or criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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". This work then contrasts these with similar scenes in early Soviet and Nazi films.

      Trade Review
      "...Provide[s] fine, nuanced analyses of individual films but also absolutely convince[s] the reader that much more rewarding work taking this approach remains to be done. Highly Recommended." -Choice "[A] scholarly investigation..." -The Catholic World "An original, important and compelling study of how films have represented crowds and how these depictions in turn reflected, mobilized, made available or frustrated mass movements at key moments in cultural history." -- -James Morrison Claremont McKenna College "An excellent study, packed with original, illuminating insights about both particular films and cinema in general." -- -Lesley Brill Wayne State University

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