Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brill, Lesley, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Canetti, Elias.
Masse und Macht.
Film
Macht > Motiv
Menschenmenge > Motiv
Power (Social sciences)
Crowds in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Foules au cinema.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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