Crowds

by Schnapp, Jeffrey T.; Tiews, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780804754798
• ISBN10: 0804754799
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Crowdsexplores 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 (http://crowds.stanford.edu) which includes virtual galleries, video capture of the November 2005 Crowds seminar, and a database of early social science readings on modern crowds.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Book of Crowds	p. ix
Abstracts	p. xvii
Mob Porn	p. 1
'Turba': Latin	p. 30
Bathing in the Multitude	p. 35
The Invention of the Masses: The Crowd in French Culture from the Revolution to the Commune	p. 47
'Mass': English (French, German)	p. 56
Ceremony	p. 60
Crowd Politics: The Myth of the 'Populus Romanus'	p. 77
'People': English	p. 88
Compactings and Loosenings	p. 91
Intimacy and Anonymity, or How the Audience Became a Crowd	p. 97
'Crowd': English	p. 104
The Crowd Laughs	p. 107
Sports Crowds	p. 111
'Multitude': English	p. 124
Rolling Stones Play Free Concert at Altamont Speedway, December 6, 1969	p. 128
Captive Crowds: Pilgrims and Martyrs	p. 133
'Hamon: Hebrew	p. 142
Beyond the Blindfold	p. 145
Movies and Masses	p. 149
'Samuuha': Sanskrit	p. 151
Dolores Park, Dyke March, June 2002	p. 154
Mass, Pack, and Mob: Art in the Age of the Crowd	p. 159
'Mob': English	p. 186
Crowd Writings	p. 191
The Return of the Blob, or How Sociology Decided to Stop Worrying and Love the Crowd	p. 203
'Foule,' 'Folla: French/Italian	p. 216
My Summer of Solitude	p. 219
From Crowd Psychology to Racial Hygiene: The Medicalization of Reaction and the New Spain	p. 225
'Gente': Spanish	p. 240
Take It	p. 243
Crowds, Number, and Mass in China	p. 249
'Zhong': Chinese	p. 262
Crowd Control	p. 265
Market Crowds	p. 271
'Ochlos': Ancient Greek	p. 278
Barneys New York: The Warehouse	p. 280
WUNC	p. 289
'Csod,' 'Tomeg,' 'Csodtomeg': Hungarian	p. 300
Protest Crowds	p. 303
Far Above the Madding Crowd: The Spatial Rhetoric of Mass Representation	p. 307
'Tolpa': Russian	p. 328
Crowd Experiences	p. 332
Far from the Crowd: Individuation, Solitude, and 'Society' in the Western Imagination	p. 335
'Vulgus': Latin	p. 354
MLK Rally	p. 357
Agoraphobia: An Alphabet	p. 359
A Singular Month of May	p. 361
Crowds as Tear-jerking Opportunities	p. 369
Afterword	p. 377
Notes	p. 379
Index	p. 427
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