Auteur: Lesley Brill

A noted critic brings crowd theory to Film Studies, offering a bold new analysis of the pervasive cinematic themes of transformation and power.From Intolerance to The Silence of the Lambs, motion pic …

Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience’s emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock’s self-assessment unquestioned, bu …