Overview

From early silent features like The Lodger and Easy Virtue to his final film, Family Plot, in 1976, most of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies were adapted from plays, novels, and short stories. Hitchcock always took care to collaborate with those who would not just execute his vision but shape it, and many of the screenwriters he enlisted—including Eliot Stannard, Charles Bennett, John Michael Hayes, and Ernest Lehman—worked with the director more than once. And of course Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville, his most constant collaborator, was with him from the 1920s until his death. In Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, Mark Osteen has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays that explore how Hitchcock and his screenwriters transformed literary and theatrical source material into masterpieces of cinema. Some of these essays look at adaptations through a specific lens, such as queer aesthetics applied to Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho, while others tackle the issue of Hitchcock as author, auteur, adaptor, and, for the first time, present Hitchcock as a literary source. Film adaptations discussed in this volume include The 39 Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Rear Window, Vertigo, Marnie, and Frenzy. Additional essays analyze Hitchcock-inspired works by W. G. Sebald, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, and others. These close examinations of Alfred Hitchcock and the creative process illuminate the significance of the material he turned to for inspiration, celebrate the men and women who helped bring his artistic vision from the printed word to the screen, and explore how the director has influenced contemporary writers. A fascinating look into an underexplored aspect of the director’s working methods, Hitchcock and Adaptation will be of interest to film scholars and fans of cinema’s most gifted auteur.

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Osteen's collection should certainly interest the Hitchcock scholar (and anyone else that enjoys scholarly essays on film). Casual fans will also find a lot of interesting information...A large percentage of the essays focus on Hitchcock's film work, and it is here that the book blossoms into life. The essays offer many factual details to support the scholarly analysis, which makes the sometimes overreaching conclusions more digestible to the average reader. These factual details are what will interest many of the director's fans...If any of this sounds appealing, this book should be worth picking up. HitchcockMaster In Hitchcock & Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, Mark Osteen has curated a number of essays that open up this crucial piece of Hitchcock's directorial methodology and detail his creative approach that inspired his film masterpieces... Readers of this compilation are in for a captivating read concerning the enduring thematic and stylistic relevancy of Hitchcock (conceptually speaking, not the Hitchcock) in adaptation film study today...To put it simply, Osteen's collection of essays is incredibly valuable to film and literary scholars as the collection covers a great deal of Hitchcock's cinematic history in a manner that uncovers the complex relationship between Hitchcock and adaptation. Film Matters

Osteen’s collection should certainly interest the Hitchcock scholar (and anyone else that enjoys scholarly essays on film). Casual fans will also find a lot of interesting information. . . .A large percentage of the essays focus on Hitchcock’s film work, and it is here that the book blossoms into life. The essays offer many factual details to support the scholarly analysis, which makes the sometimes overreaching conclusions more digestible to the average reader. These factual details are what will interest many of the director’s fans. . . .If any of this sounds appealing, this book should be worth picking up. * HitchcockMaster * In Hitchcock & Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, Mark Osteenhas curated a number of essays that open upthis crucial piece of Hitchcock’s directorialmethodology and detail his creative approachthat inspired his film masterpieces. . . . Readers of this compilationare in for a captivating read concerning theenduring thematic and stylistic relevancy ofHitchcock (conceptually speaking, not the Hitchcock) in adaptation film study today. . . .To put it simply, Osteen’s collection ofessays is incredibly valuable to film andliterary scholars as the collection covers agreat deal of Hitchcock’s cinematic historyin a manner that uncovers the complexrelationship between Hitchcock andadaptation. * Film Matters *

Osteen's collection should certainly interest the Hitchcock scholar (and anyone else that enjoys scholarly essays on film). Casual fans will also find a lot of interesting information...A large percentage of the essays focus on Hitchcock's film work, and it is here that the book blossoms into life. The essays offer many factual details to support the scholarly analysis, which makes the sometimes overreaching conclusions more digestible to the average reader. These factual details are what will interest many of the director's fans...If any of this sounds appealing, this book should be worth picking up. HitchcockMaster

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Mark Osteen is chair of the English Department and cofounder of the Film Studies Program at Loyola University Maryland. He has published dozens of articles on film, music, and modern literature and is the author or editor of ten books, including One of Us: A Family’s Life with Autism (2010) and Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream (2013).

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