Crowds
Will be published approx. on 17. October 2006
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-8047-5479-8 (ISBN)
Description
Crowds explores the key role assumed by human multitudes in modern life by means of a graphically innovative, multi-author volume in which essays, word histories, and personal testimonies are woven together into a multiperspectival and multilayered group portrait. The portrait in question includes analyses of market crowds, crowds in modern art and literature, modern assemblies as compared to their premodern and ancient counterparts, modern sports crowds, human multitudes and mass media such as photography and cinema, crowds as political actors, and the emergence of crowd-centered discourses in social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Contributors include Stefan Jonsson, Allen Guttmann, Susanna Elm, John Plotz, Christine Poggi, William Egginton, Haun Saussy, Joan Ramon Resina, and Charles Tilly, with testimonies by authors such as Greil Marcus, Richard Rorty, Michel Serres, Alain Schnapp, Michael Hardt, T. J. Clark, and Susan Buck-Morss. The book represents the main output of one of the Stanford Humanities Lab's prototype "Big Humanities" projects and is supported by an extensive website (https://www.sup.org/media/crowds/) which includes virtual galleries, video capture of the November 2005 Crowds seminar, and a database of early social science readings on modern crowds.
Reviews / Votes
"This work is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary st of analyses of crowds of most every variety: political crowds, sports crowds, captive crowds, masses, packs and mobs, etc... [This] fascinating work should appeal to a wide audience."-CHOICE "Combined, the book and web site offer unparalleled breadth and depth of research on crowds that will be likely to remain the gold standard on this topic for some time to come. . . . In its size, exuberant diversity, electronic research capabilities, and focus on a common topic, Crowds presents an exciting demonstration of what can be accomplished in collaborative humanities research."-N. Katherine Hayles, Afterword to Crowds "Crowds asserts itself as a highly successful project and collaborative book that sets a high standard for all "hybrid" and cooperative forms of scholarship in the future, one which provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of its subject." -Modernism/ModernityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 figures, 110 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-5479-8 (9780804754798)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jeffrey T. Schnapp is Director of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory. He is the author, most recently, of Building Fascism, Communism, Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca-Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer (Stanford University Press, 2003). Matthew Tiews is the Associate Director of the Stanford Humanities Center.
Content
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Introduction: A Book of Crowds 000 @toc2:1 Mob Porn 000 @tocca:Jeffrey T. Schnapp @toc3:1A TURBA 000 @tocca:Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew @toc3:1B "Love in the Multitude" 000 @tocca:Michael Hardt @toc2:2 The Invention of the Masses: The Crowd in French Culture from the Revolution to the Commune 000 @tocca:Stefan Jonsson @toc3:2A MASS 000 @tocca:Marisa Galvez @toc3:2B French Academy Ceremonies 000 @tocca:Michel Serres @toc2:3 Crowd Politics: The Myth of the Populus Romanus 000 @tocca:Joy Connolly @toc3:3A PEOPLE 000 @tocca:Marie-Louise Kragh) @toc3:3B The Visceral Experience of Crowds 000 @tocca:Susan Buck-Morss @toc2:4 Intimacy and Anonymity, or How the Audience became a Crowd 000 @tocca:William Egginton @toc3:4A. CROWD 000 @tocca:Marisa Galvez @toc3:4B 1960s Crowds 000 @tocca:T. J. Clark @toc2:5 Sports Crowds 000 @tocca:Allen Guttmann @toc3:5A MULTITUDE 000 @tocca:Susan Schuyler) @toc3:5B Crowds at Altamont 000 @tocca:Greil Marcus @toc2:6 Captive Crowds: Pilgrims and Martyrs 000 @tocca:Susanna Elm @toc3:6A HAMON 000 @tocca:Na'ama Rokem @toc3:6B Brazilian Political Uprisings 000 @tocca:Luiz Costa-Lima @toc2:7 Movies and Masses 000 @tocca:Anton Kaes @toc3:7A SAMUUHA 000 @tocca:Peter Samuels @toc3:7B The San Francisco Dyke March 000 @tocca:Tirza Latimer @toc2:8 Mass, Pack, and Mob: Art in the Age of the Crowd 000 @tocca:Christine Poggi @toc3:8A MOB 000 @tocca:Maria Su) @toc3:8B Crowd Writings 000 @tocca:Armando Petrucci @toc2:9 The Return of the Blob or: How Sociology Decided to Stop Worrying and Love the Crowd 000 @tocca:John Plotz @toc3:9A FOLLA/FOULE 000 @tocca:John B.Hill @toc3:9B Crowds and Solitude 000 @tocca:David Humphrey @toc2:10 From Crowd Psychology to Racial Hygiene: The Medicalization of Reaction and the New Spain 000 @tocca:Joan Ramon Resina @toc3:10A GENTE 000 @tocca:Jeronimo Ernesto Arellano @toc3:10B "Take It" 000 @tocca:Ann Weinstone @toc2:11 Crowds and Passivity in Asia 000 @tocca:Haun Saussy @toc3:11A ZHONG 000 @tocca:Ka-Fai Yau) @toc3:11B Crowd Control 000 @tocca:David Theo Goldberg @toc2:12 Market Crowds 000 @tocca:Urs Staheli @toc3:12A OCHLOS 000 @tocca:Sebastian de Vivo @toc3:12B Shopping Crowds 000 @tocca:Jessica Burstein @toc2:13 WUNC 000 @tocca:Charles Tilly @toc3:13A CSOD 000 @tocca:D niel Margocsy @toc3:13B Protest Crowds 000 @tocca:Tom Seligman @toc2:14 "Far Above the Madding Crowd": The Spatial Rhetoric of Mass Representation 000 @tocca:Andrew V. Uroskie @toc3:14A TOLPA 000 @tocca:Dustin Condren @toc3:14B Several Crowd Experiences 000 @tocca:Hayden White @toc2:15 Far from the Crowd: Individuation, Solitude, and "Society" in the Western Imagination tocca:Jobst Welge 000 @toc3:15A VULGUS 000 @tocca:Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew @toc3:15B MLK Rally 000 @tocca:Richard Rorty @toc2:16 Agoraphobia: An Alphabet 000 tocca:Jessica Burstein @toc3:16A "A Singular Month of May" 000 @tocca:Alain Schnapp @toc3:16B "Crowds as Tear-Jerking Opportunities" 000 @tocca:Luigi Ballerini @toc4:Afterword 000 @tocca: N. Katherine Hayles @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000