Historical Simulation and Popular Entertainment: The "Potemkin" Mutiny from Reconstructed Newsreel to Black Sea Stunt Men

doi:10.2307/1145931

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Finding

Theatrical representations have an enormous influence on crowds, who have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the unreal and the real, as they are only capable of thinking in images that terrify or attract them and become motives of action.

Paper

Historical Simulation and Popular Entertainment: The "Potemkin" Mutiny from Reconstructed Newsreel to Black Sea Stunt Men

Citations: 6

1989

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Abstract

Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images. It is only images that terrify or attract them and become motives of action. For this reason theatrical representations, in which the image is shown in its most clearly visible shape, always have an enormous influence on crowds. [. . .] The unreal has almost as much influence on them as the real. They have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the two.

Authors

D. Gerould

Journal

TDR

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