In response to Ben Alpers's question about crowd scenes in Hollywood films: A classic analysis of a crowd/mob scene is the Cahiers du Cinema essay on John Ford's YOUNG MR. LINCOLN. It is translated and anthologized in Bill Nichols's MOVIES AND METHODS, vol. 1. For a contrasting analysis of the rhetoric of the crowd, you might see T. Benson, "Rhetoric As a Way of Being," in Benson, ed., AMERICAN RHETORIC: CONTEXT AND CRITICISM (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), where I compare an actual crowd event with the typical film version. For a non-Hollywood crowd scene, see Kristin Thompson's analysis of EISENSTEIN'S IVAN THE TERRIBLE (Princeton Univ. Press). I'm in the midst of doing some more writing on this set of issues, and would be pleased to hear of your work, Ben, when it's published. Tom Benson Penn State University