Screen LibraryA companion to Alfred Hitchcock
"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influenc...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444397321 |
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"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influences, and collaborators, on the other. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock authoritatively maps the body of work generated in response to the director and his films, compiling essays from some of the world's most noted scholars in the emerging field of Hitchcock studies"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 610 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444331981 (electronic bk.) 1444331981 (electronic bk.) 9781444397321 (electronic bk.) 144439732X (electronic bk.) 9781444397314 (electronic bk.) 1444397311 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PN1998 |
| CLC: | J905.561 |
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Hitchcock's lives / Hitchcock's literary sources / Hitchcock and early filmmakers / Hitchcock's narrative modernism : ironies of fictional time / Hitchcock and romance / Family plots : Hitchcock and melodrama / Conceptual suspense in Hitchcock's films / "Tell me the story so far" : Hitchcock and his writers / Suspicion : collusion and resistance in the work of Hitchcock's female collaborators / A surface collaboration : Hitchcock and performance / Aesthetic space in Hitchcock / Hitchcock and music / Some Hitchcockian shots / Hitchcock's silent cinema / Gaumont Hitchcock / Hitchcock discovers America : the Selznick-era films / From transatlantic to Warner Bros. / Hitchcock, metteur-en-scène : 1954-60 / The universal Hitchcock / French Hitchcock, 1945-55 / Lost in translation? Listening to the Hitchcock-Truffault interview / Robin Wood's Hitchcock / Accidental heroes and gifted amateurs : Hitchcock and ideology / Hitchcock and feminist criticism : from Rebecca to Marnie / Queer Hitchcock / Hitchcock and philosophy / Hitchcock's ethics of suspense : psychoanalysis and the devaluation of the object / Occassions of sin : the forgotten cigarette lighter and other moral accidents in Hitchcock / Hitchcock and the postmodern / Hitchcock's legacy / |