Quotes 9 Flashcards
crowd: ‘powerful and emblematic figure that served important functions’
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‘served as a model for the public itself’
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‘web of ideological interest that lay behind the uniformity of mass produced, mass consumed culture’
mass culture
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‘a mechanism of social control’
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‘served as a mechanism of solidarity in an era of social conflict and fractured identities’
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‘a crowd of duped readers v an authentic community’
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‘common figure of the C19th’
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‘translated as gawker, it earned the connotations of idle curiosity, gullibility, simpleminded foolishness and gaping ignorance’
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‘a man in the crowd but not of the crowd’
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‘revealed a gaze of morbid curiosity’
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‘public curiosity was demanding, but was natural’
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‘community of horror’ or a ‘public of empathy’
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