Overview
This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.
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Author: Richard Allen (The Open University, UK) , Sam Ishii-Gonzales
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Edition: 1999 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.800kg
ISBN: 9780851707358
ISBN 10: 0851707351
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 September 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Part 1 Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master theory vs practice, Deborah Knight and George McKnight; Hitchcock, fin de partie, Raymond Bellour; Hitchcock as sabateur, Susan Smith; the theatre in English Hitchcock. Part 2 Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir, James Naremore; the efforts of Eros Hitchcock with the surrealists, S. Ishii Gonzales; the cult of representation painting and sculpture in Hitchcock, Brigitte Peuker; Hitchcock's 'rope', Peter Wollen. Part 3 Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle Hitchcock on television, Tom Leitch; we might even get in the news reels the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films, Ina Rae Hark; you wanns check my thumb prints? 'Vertigo', the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism, Robert Corber; on espionage and 'The 39 Steps', Toby Miller. Part 4 Sexuality/romance: 'Marnie' and the foreclosure of lesbian identity, Jacqueline Joyce; Hitchcock's future, Lee Edelman; are snakes necessary? in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges, Lesley Brill; 'Vertigo' and feminist theory, Susan White. Part 5 Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy, Thomas Elsasser; returning to the scene of the crime 'Psycho' and the remake, William Rothman; James, Hitchcock and the fate of character, Paula Marantz Cohen; Hitchcock, Metasceptic, Richard Allen.
Reviews
""Scholarly, wide ranging . . . an entertataining analysis of Hitchcockian attributes ... should find space on the bookshelf of any self-respecting film critic, media academic or cinematic student of the great master.""--""Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Scholarly, wide ranging . . . an entertataining analysis of Hitchcockian attributes ... should find space on the bookshelf of any self-respecting film critic, media academic or cinematic student of the great master. -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly
Author Information
Richard Allen is Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Sam Ishii Gonzalès teaches at New York University, USA.
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