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Author : Dan Aulier
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780743400176
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock in the Vertigo Murders written by Dan Aulier and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alfred Hitchcock mystery.
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571210602
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Hitchcock Murders written by Peter Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock relished his power to frighten us and believed the shocks he administered improved our psychological health. But he could never satisfactorily explain our curiosity to see forbidden things or the perverse desire to experience anxiety and dread that made his work so popular. In The Hitchcock Murders, Peter Conrad, one of Hitchcock's eager victims, undertakes the task on the master's behalf. At the age of thirteen, Conrad snuck into his first screening of Psycho, and he's been wary of showers and fruit cellars ever since. Thanks to Hitchcock, he's also suspicious of staircases, seagulls, and crop-dusting planes. Now he sets out to analyze the nature of Hitchcock's appeal to both himself and the millions of moviegoers for whom Hitchcock is cinema's foremost auteur. Examining Hitchcock's use of religion, morality, conscience, culpability, and literary symbols, Conrad unveils a chilling Nietzschean universe-one in which there is no God and no moral standard, where humans are petty and disposable and the neutral hand of fate can take a life in the blink of an eye. A timid, respectable man with the imagination of a psychopath, a chubby jester whose practical jokes took merciless advantage of human insecurities, Hitchcock is revealed here as the man who knew too much-about all of us.
Author : Thomson David Thomson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145875796X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Moment of Psycho written by Thomson David Thomson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.
Author : Alec Coppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo written by Alec Coppel and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883657270
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
Author : Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Publisher : Arrowood Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884860853
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and published by Arrowood Press. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alec Coppel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo written by Alec Coppel and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Auiler
Publisher : Dan Auiler
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Vertigo: The Making of the Hitchcock Classic written by Dan Auiler and published by Dan Auiler. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th Anniversary Edition Special edition of the the bestselling Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. The new e-text has images, a new preface and additional commentary on Vertigo's selection as the Best Film Ever Made by the BFI's Sight and Sound.
Author : T. Schlipfinger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656189889
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Downward Spiral. Repetition in Hitchcock's "Vertigo" written by T. Schlipfinger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,5, University of Innsbruck (Amerikanistik), course: Memory in Film and Literature, language: English, abstract: It is hard to determine the one single defining factor that makes Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo what it is today: by many considered to be one of the best movies ever made. The plot is – despite all its unrealism – thrilling from the first minute to the last. James Stewart’s and Kim Novak’s performances are more than convincing to say the least and Bernard Herrmann’s music dug itself into the collective ears of a whole generation. However, there is one thing that all those factors have in common and which therefore, arguably, defines the power of Vertigo most accurately: in a way all those features suck the viewers into the movie and take them on a spiral-like journey down to the bottom of Vertigo. This becomes apparent from the first minute onwards, when Hitchcock establishes the spiral as the defining motif of his movie during the intro-sequence. In this paper I am going to argue that the whole movie follows a spiral-like structure and through repetition of certain motifs Hitchcock is able to suck the viewer deeper and deeper into the story of Vertigo.
Author : Edward White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002409
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense written by Edward White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Biography An Economist Best Book of 2021 A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book’s twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock’s life and work: “The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up”; “The Murderer”; “The Auteur”; “The Womanizer”; “The Fat Man”; “The Dandy”; “The Family Man”; “The Voyeur”; “The Entertainer”; “The Pioneer”; “The Londoner”; “The Man of God.” Each of these angles reveals something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived but also the various versions of himself that he projected, and those projected on his behalf. From Hitchcock’s early work in England to his most celebrated films, White astutely analyzes Hitchcock’s oeuvre and provides new interpretations. He also delves into Hitchcock’s ideas about gender; his complicated relationships with “his women”—not only Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren but also his female audiences—as well as leading men such as Cary Grant, and writes movingly of Hitchcock’s devotion to his wife and lifelong companion, Alma, who made vital contributions to numerous classic Hitchcock films, and burnished his mythology. And White is trenchant in his assessment of the Hitchcock persona, so carefully created that Hitchcock became not only a figurehead for his own industry but nothing less than a cultural icon. Ultimately, White’s portrayal illuminates a vital truth: Hitchcock was more than a Hollywood titan; he was the definitive modern artist, and his significance reaches far beyond the confines of cinema.
Author : Wendy Powers
Publisher : Wendy Powers
ISBN 13 : 0615589847
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Testament of Judith Barton written by Wendy Powers and published by Wendy Powers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the cinematic masterpiece Vertigo retold by its tragic heroine: that character, Judy Barton, may be the most-watched and least-understood woman in movie history. The Testament of Judith Barton tells Judy's behind-the-scenes side of the story in her own voice. Like Wicked for The Wizard of Oz, it reveals the secret history behind a classic story from a mysterious woman's point of view.
Author : Lindsey McIntosh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 366843302X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)
Download or read book "Fatal Coincidences". An exploration of the relationship between art and death in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rope" (1948) and "Vertigo" (1958) written by Lindsey McIntosh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Art - Photography and Film, grade: A, University of Strathclyde, language: English, abstract: The principle objective of this essay will be to explore and explicate the relationship between art and death within two films by Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1948) and Vertigo (1958). Discussing Hitchcock’s filmography in ‘Saying it With Pictures’, Erik S. Lunde and Douglas A. Noverr credit the influence of art to be of paramount importance to the director’s visual form, remarking that ‘a great interest in the fine arts strengthened the cinematic vision displayed in countless brilliantly conceived photographic images in his films’ (Loukides and Fuller 1993, p.97). Both critics trace an admiration for the classical arts to have flourished in the director’s youth as he immersed himself in painting classes during his time at the University of London (Ibid). Later in life, art would assume a strong place within both Hitchcock’s personal and professional personas; within his private sphere Hitchcock accumulated interest in original works of art, collecting pieces by artists such as Paul Klee, Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali. Professionally, a fascination with the visual arts would infiltrate his body of work, with portraits, paintings and sculptures featuring predominantly within the majority of his films. [...] As part of centenary celebrations of the filmmaker’s work, a unique visual exhibition was unveiled to commemorate the intimate relationship between art and Hitchcock films. Opening in 2000, an exhibition titled ‘Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences’ opened in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Captioned as a ‘celebration of Hitchcock’s personal creative expression’ (Moral 2002, p.171), ‘Fatal Coincidences’ was designed by Guy Cogeval and Dominique Paini to feature over two hundred artworks spanning across the previous two centuries, depicting familiar scenes of art echoed within Hitchcock’s own body of work. Whilst the exhibition has excelled in establishing the painterly parallels present between the real world of art and the surreal world of Hitchcock, the ambition of this work will be to open up discussion of Hitchcock’s artistic influences further. It proposes that art serves not merely as a background prop which accompanies the favoured theme of death quintessential to Hitchcockian narrative, but rather that art becomes embalmed with macabre properties which subconsciously enrich the audience’s perception of the director’s intentions. [...]
Author : William Rothman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hitchcock--the Murderous Gaze written by William Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports. The early narratives were shaped by a strong belief in original sin and spiritual redemption, by the idea that all murders were natural manifestations of the innate depravity of humankind. In a dramatic departure from that view, the Gothic imagination--with its central conventions of the fundamental horror and mystery of the crime--seized upon the murderer as a moral monster, separated from the normal majority by an impassable gulf. Halttunen shows how this perception helped shape the modern response to criminal transgression, mandating criminal incarceration, and informing a social-scientific model of criminal deviance. The Gothic expression of horror and inhumanity is the predominant response to radical evil today; it has provided a set of conventions surrounding tales of murder that appear to be natural and instinctive, when in fact they are rooted in the nineteenth century. Halttunen's penetrating insight into her extraordinary treasure trove of creepy popular crime literature reveals how our stories have failed to make sense of the killer and how that failure has constrained our understanding and treatment of criminality today.
Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666824X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical Hitchcock written by Robert B. Pippin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its story of obsession and fantasy, Pippin reflects more broadly on the modern world depicted in Hitchcock’s films. Hitchcock’s characters, Pippin shows us, repeatedly face problems and dangers rooted in our general failure to understand others—or even ourselves—very well, or to make effective use of what little we do understand. Vertigo, with its impersonations, deceptions, and fantasies, embodies a general, common struggle for mutual understanding in the late modern social world of ever more complex dependencies. By treating this problem through a filmed fictional narrative, rather than discursively, Pippin argues, Hitchcock is able to help us see the systematic and deep mutual misunderstanding and self-deceit that we are subject to when we try to establish the knowledge necessary for love, trust, and commitment, and what it might be to live in such a state of unknowingness. A bold, brilliant exploration of one of the most admired works of cinema, The Philosophical Hitchcock will lead philosophers and cinephiles alike to a new appreciation of Vertigo and its meanings.
Author : Sidney Gottlieb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969871
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Haunted by Vertigo written by Sidney Gottlieb and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Schickel stated unequivocally in 1972 that "We're living in a Hitchcock world, all right", he did so without even mentioning the film that now stands at the top of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll: Vertigo. That omission needs to be redressed when we think about the Hitchcock world we live in now. Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock's Masterpiece Then and Now gathers essays that offer a variety of approaches to what many consider to be Hitchcock's signature film, one that shows him operating at full strength as a cinematic artist portraying some of the defining elements of modern life: romantic exhilaration and anxiety, the attractiveness and elusiveness of love, and the interpenetration of pain, pleasure, life, and death in our psyche and our culture. The pieces in this volume explore numerous aspects of how, broadly speaking, Vertigo is about characters haunted by memories and desires; how the film itself is haunted by numerous literary and cinematic fore- bearers; and how it continues to haunt not only filmmakers but artists working in other media as well. Essays that concentrate on formative or interpretive contexts of the film, including Greek mythology, early German cinema, film noir, an ensemble of (mostly) French writers and filmmakers, andmodern and postmodern art are complemented by others that present close readings of hidden details in the film, its use of multiple gazes that underscore its meaning and drama, the darker sides of even gestures of love and hospitality, and how the film embodies Hitchcock's "late style". Taken together the essays in the volume reinforce how Vertigo is, like the majestic trees visited by the two main characters in the film, sempervirens – an enduring masterpiece of then, now, and, we can safely say, the future.
Author : Markus Hirsch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3756865894
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Six Movies To Be Murdered By written by Markus Hirsch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock - legendärer Filmregisseur, Großmeister des Spannungskinos, Kulturikone & Figur der Zeitgeschichte. Ins Zentrum seines Buches "Six Movies To Be Murdered By - Das Kino des Alfred Hitchcock" hat der Grazer Autor Markus Hirsch sechs Hitchcock-Klassiker (Bei Anruf Mord / Das Fenster zum Hof / Vertigo - Aus dem Reich der Toten / Psycho / Der unsichtbare Dritte / Marnie) gestellt, die exemplarisch sind für Hitchcock's Art des "puren Kinos" und für die einzigartige Mischung aus Ernsthaftigkeit & Heiterkeit, die die Filme des Regisseurs durchzieht. An zahlreichen Stellen kommt der "Meister der Suspense", und das vor allem auf der Basis von Ausschnitten aus den legendären Unterhaltungen Hitchcocks mit dem französischen Star-Filmer François Truffaut, selbst zu Wort und liefert Hintergrundinfos zur Entstehungsgeschichte und vor allem zu einzelnen wichtigen Szenen der vorgestellten Filme, so wie zum Beispiel zur berühmten "Duschmord-Szene" in Psycho - "Hitch is back!"
Author : Jeff Kraft
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809198
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Footsteps in the Fog written by Jeff Kraft and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footsteps in the Fog is a celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock. The master director's familiarity with Northern California greatly influenced his decision to use Bay Area locations in several of his landmark motion pictures, and more importantly was often the source of inspiration for many of these same cinema classics. Three of Hitchcock's masterpieces were set in the San Francisco area: Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, and The Birds. In addition, Rebecca, Suspicion, Marnie, Topaz, Psycho, and Family Plot utilized Bay Area locations and/or were inspired by Northern California events and settings. Footsteps in the Fog examines these famous films, taking the reader on a journey around the Bay Area, while weaving together cinemagraphic intrigue, Bay Area history and lore, and the timeless elegance of San Francisco and its picturesque surroundings. Over 400 historical and contemporary photos are featured in the book, including impromptu off-camera images and shots from the films themselves—many never before seen! Footsteps in the Fog can be used as a companion to viewing the Northern California Hitchcock films, as a guide for visiting the sites and settings used in these motion pictures, and as a source of biographical information about Alfred Hitchcock's personal connections to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Hitchcock loved Northern California; he often entertained Hollywood celebrities at his ranch and vineyard outside of Santa Cruz, and frequented such San Francisco institutions as Jack's Restaurant, the Fairmont Hotel, the Top of the Mark, and the historic Bercut Brothers' Grant Market. Hitchcock fans everywhere will rejoice as they revisit and rediscover the locations and settings used in the great director's most beloved films.
