Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema

Contents

v Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface ix Introduction 1 Part I. Power versus Crowds 1. Crowds and Power in Two Silent Films: Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin and Griffith’s Intolerance 23 2. The Comedic Crowds of Preston Sturges 53 3. The Deceitful Dead and the Triumph of Nothing: Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood 75 4. Crowds, Isolation, and Transformation in Welles’s Citizen Kane 99 Part II. Predation versus Transformation 5. Packs, Predators, and Love in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest 121 6. “Boundaries, Burdens, and Stings”: Living as Prey in Burnett’s Killer of Sheep 143 7. Changing Places: Predation, Transformation, and Identity in Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs 165 Concluding Thoughts 187 Afterword: On Crowds and Power 195 Appendix: Summary of Crowds and Power 213 Notes 259 Index 273 This page intentionally left blank ...