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A Face in the Crowd
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The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to incisive media satire, charismatic antiheroes, and cautionary stories about celebrity transforming into political influence.
- Tone
- satirical, bleak, tense
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- fame, populism, manipulation, media power, corruption
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century America, rural communities and expanding mass-media studios
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