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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index
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