Title: Crowds, power, and transformation in cinema /
Authors: Brill, Lesley, 1943-
Publisher: Wayne State University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Crowds in motion pictures.; Power (Social sciences)
Contents: 1. Crowds and power in two silent films : Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Griffith's Intolerance -- 2. The comedic crowds of Preston Sturges -- 3. The deceitful dead and the triumph of nothing : Kurosawa's Throne of blood -- 4. Crowds, isolation, and transformation in Welles's Citizen Kane -- 5. Packs, predators, and love in Hitchcock's North by northwest -- 6. "Boundaries, burdens and stings" : living as prey in Burnett's Killer of sheep -- 7. Changing places : predation, transformation, and identity in Demme's The Silence of the lambs.