Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Power versus Crowds -- 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 -- Part II. Predation versus Transformation -- 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 -- Concluding Thoughts -- Afterword: On Crowds and Power -- Appendix: Summary of Crowds and Power -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.