Through the Looking-Glass of Film

Grimsted, David; Musser, Charles; Nelson, Carol; Hansen, Miriam

doi:10.2307/2702955

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“…Local candidates and party workers dispensed free alcohol, typically the greatest Election Day expense. 35 In one city, Democrats brought voters to the polls in wagons stocked with whiskey barrels. Citizens also carried their own flasks and stood treat for drinks.…”

Section: Sensing Public Life: Obvious Aspects Of Campaign Ritualmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting alone: the decline of bodily mass communication and public sensationalism in presidential elections

Marvin

Simonson²

2004

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

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The congregational crowd was a powerful mode of political communication in the nineteenth-century US until banished by the imposition of literate modes on popular electoral politics by Progressive reformers. We examine its major channels of expression, bodily mass communication and public sensationalism, within a framework of class-based struggle, observing that the practice of live bodily assembly created broad points of entry into political life, socialized the young, and successfully conveyed the importance of voting. A text-based normative model of the informed deliberative voter, we argue, offers too narrow a conception of participation compared to a more spaciously conceived democratic community.

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Section: Sensing Public Life: Obvious Aspects Of Campaign Ritualmentioning

confidence: 99%