Crowds - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0804754802 ISBN 13: 9780804754804

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

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 (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.

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Informazioni sugli autori

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.

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

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 (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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804754802
• ISBN 13: 9780804754804
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 439
• Redattore: Schnapp Jeffrey T., Tiews Matthew
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile