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Hitchcock's Magic

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323715
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Magic written by Neil Badmington and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we still drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What remains to see? What could there possibly be left to say about tales that are overwhelmingly familiar? Why, moreover, have many of Hitchcock's films entered the popular imagination and enjoyed an eventful life far from the screen? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions about the influence and ongoing appeal of Hitchcock's work by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, holding our attention by constantly withholding something from us. We keep watching, keep revisiting the stories, because there is always something left to see and know. The book combines detailed textual analysis of a number of Hitchcock's most famous films - Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Birds - with more general discussion of the director's complete body of work. Drawing upon the poststructuralist theories of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, it takes issue with the biographical and psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated studies of Hitchcock's films to argue instead for the significance of textuality. Hitchcock's Magic is an innovative, lively, and readable book which challenges critical orthodoxy and breaks new ground in the field.

Hitchcock's Magic

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783164514
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Magic written by Neil Badmington and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What is the source of Hitchcock’s magic? This book answers these questions by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, holding our attention by constantly withholding something from us.

Performing Magic on the Western Stage

Author : L. Hass
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617123
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Performing Magic on the Western Stage written by L. Hass and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense

Author : John Charles Bennett
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813144795
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense written by John Charles Bennett and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful life and creative career of the writer behind six of Hitchcock’s thrillers: “An intriguing and revealing story.” —Times Literary Supplement With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, opinions about his craft, and impressions of the many famous people he knew. Among other things, Bennett was a decorated WWI hero, an eminent Shakespearean actor, and an Allied spy and propagandist during WWII, but he is best remembered for his commercially and critically acclaimed collaborations with directors Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille. The fruitful partnership with Hitchcock began after the director adapted Bennett’s 1929 play Blackmail as the first British sound film. Their partnership produced six thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Sabotage, Secret Agent, Young and Innocent, and Foreign Correspondent. In this witty and intriguing book, Bennett discusses how their collaboration created such famous motifs as the “wrong man accused” device and the MacGuffin. He also takes readers behind the scenes with the Master of Suspense, offering his thoughts on the director’s work, sense of humor, and personal life. Featuring an introduction and additional biographical material from Bennett’s son, editor John Charles Bennett, Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense is a richly detailed narrative of a remarkable yet often-overlooked figure in film history.

Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things

Author : John Bruns
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810139979
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things written by John Bruns and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock’s films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape cognitively, affectively, and politically. Yet this book does not promise that such a map can or will cohere, for Hitchcock was just as adept at misdirection as he was at direction. Bearing this in mind and true to the Hitchcock spirit, Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things anticipates that people will stumble into the wrong places at the wrong time, places will be made uncanny by things, and things exchanged between people will act as (not-so) secret agents that make up the perilous landscape of Hitchcock’s work. This book offers new readings of well-known Hitchcock films, including The Lodger, Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, as well as insights into lesser-discussed films such as I Confess and Family Plot. Additional close readings of the original theatrical trailer for Psycho and a Hitchcock-directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents expand the Hitchcock landscape beyond conventional critical borders. In tracing the network of relations in Hitchcock’s work, Bruns brings new Hitchcockian tropes to light. For students, scholars, and serious fans, the author promises a thrilling critical navigation of the Hitchcock landscape, with frequent “mental shake-ups” that Hitchcock promised his audience.

Hitchcock at the Source

Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438437501
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock at the Source written by R. Barton Palmer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent years, but most studies of the subject have continued to privilege literature over film by taking the literary sources as their starting point. Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources have been transformed by one filmmaker into an impressive body of work. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock transformed a variety of literary sources—novels, plays, short stories—into what is arguably the most coherent and distinctive (narratively, stylistically, and thematically) of all directorial oeuvres. After an introduction surveying the nature and diversity of Hitchcock's sources and locating the current volume in the context of theoretical work on adaptation, nineteen original essays range across the entirety of Hitchcock's career, from the silent period through to the 1970s. In addition to addressing the process of adaptation in particular films in terms of plot and character, the contributors also consider less obvious matters of tone, technique, and ideology; Hitchcock's manipulation of the conventions of literary and dramatic genres such as spy fiction and romantic comedy; and more general problems, such as Hitchcock's shift from plays to novels as his major sources in the course of the 1930s.

Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385537425
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping short biography, Peter Ackroyd wrests the director’s chair back from the master of control to reveal a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashed a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances throughout Hitchcock’s story, just as the director did in his own films: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, James Stewart and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren, who endures cuts and bruises from a fearsome flock of real birds. Perceptive and intelligent, Alfred Hitchcock is a fascinating look at one of the most revered directors of the twentieth century.

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Magic Circle

Author : M. V. Carey
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394936079
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Magic Circle written by M. V. Carey and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young sleuths uncover a coven of witches when they search for the missing memoirs of a movie star.

Hitchcock and Humor

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667356X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock and Humor written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery has been described as "a kind of Rear Window for retirees." As this quote suggests, an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's methodical use of comedy in his films is past due. One of Turner Classic Movies' on-screen scholars for their summer 2017 online Hitchcock class, the author grew tired of misleading throwaway references to the director's "comic relief." This book examines what should be obvious: Hitchcock systematically incorporated assorted types of comedy--black humor, parody, farce/screwball comedy and romantic comedy--in his films to entertain his audience with "comic" thrillers.

Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch

Author : Wieland Schwanebeck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319600087
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch written by Wieland Schwanebeck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock’s own films yet which cannot be limited to the realm of Hitchcockian cinema alone. While the first section of this collection focuses on Hitchcock’s own films and the various people who made important artistic contributions to them, the subsequent chapters draw wider circles. Case studies focusing on the branding effects associated with Hitchcockian cinema and its seductive qualities highlight the paratextual dimension of his films and the importance of his well-publicized persona, while the final section addresses both Hitchcock’s formative period, as well as other filmmakers who drew upon the Hitchcock Touch. The collection not only serves as an introduction to the field of Hitchcock scholarship for a wider audience, it also delivers in-depth assessments of the lesser-known early period of his career, in addition to providing new takes on canonical films like Vertigo (1958) and Frenzy (1972).

Magic of Psychograms

Author : Helyn Hitchcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780064640169
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Magic of Psychograms written by Helyn Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1986-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Perpetual Movement

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484178
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Movement written by Neil Badmington and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination of the film in which Neil Badmington analyzes each of Rope's eleven shots. Writing in an accessible and engaging style, Badmington explores the film's treatment of space, sound, editing, sexuality, source material, design, intertexuality, narrative, and music. He looks at Hitchcock's struggle with censorship while planning, shooting, and distributing the film. Perpetual Movement also addresses Rope's reception and legacy, explaining why the film's unusual qualities provide such lasting appeal for viewers.

Natural Magic

Author : Renée Bergland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235295
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Natural Magic written by Renée Bergland and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical—and too dangerous for women. Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin’s work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson’s poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renée Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world. Illuminating and insightful, Natural Magic explores how Dickinson and Darwin refused to accept the separation of art and science. Today, more than ever, we need to reclaim their shared sense of ecological wonder.

Hitchcock

Author : Robert E. Kapsis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824659
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock written by Robert E. Kapsis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of his career, Alfred Hitchcock wanted to be considered an artist. Although his thrillers were immensely popular, and Hitchcock himself courted reviewers, he was, for many years, regarded as no more than a master craftsman. By the 1960s, though, critics began calling him an artist of unique vision and gifts. What happened to make Hitchcock's reputation as a true innovator and singular talent? Through a close examination of Hitchcock's personal papers, scripts, production notes, publicity files, correspondence, and hundreds of British and American reviews, Robert Kapsis here traces Hitchcock's changing critical fortunes. Vertigo, for instance, was considered a flawed film when first released; today it is viewed by many as the signal achievement of a great director. According to Kapsis, this dramatic change occurred because the making of the Hitchcock legend was not solely dependent on the quality of his films. Rather, his elevation to artist was caused by a successful blending of self-promotion, sponsorship by prominent members of the film community, and, most important, changes in critical theory which for the first time allowed for the idea of director as auteur. Kapsis also examines the careers of several other filmmakers who, like Hitchcock, have managed to cross the line that separates craftsman from artist, and shows how Hitchcock's legacy and reputation shed light on the way contemporary reputations are made. In a chapter about Brian De Palma, the most reknowned thriller director since Hitchcock, Kapsis explores how Hitchcock's legacy has affected contemporary work in—and criticism of—the thriller genre. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and intriguing excerpts, and augmented by interviews with Hitchcock's associates, this thoroughly documented and engagingly written book will appeal to scholars and film enthusiasts alike. "Required reading for Hitchcock scholars...scrupulously researched, invaluable material for those who continue to ask: what made the master tick?"—Anthony Perkins

Hitchcock's America

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195119061
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's America written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock has long been understood as an inspired technician and master of abnormal psychology. The authors of this volume suggest, through readings of his American films, that he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable presence.

Alfred Hitchcock's Witch's Brew

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780394835921
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's Witch's Brew written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of eleven short stories about magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural.

The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window

Author : Stefan Sharff
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879100872
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window written by Stefan Sharff and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with stills from the film, The Art of Looking is a unique appreciation of the art of Alfred Hitchcock, made even more valuable by the first publication in any form of the full dialogue of a screen masterpiece.