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Hitchcock's Romantic Irony

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231509677
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Romantic Irony written by Richard Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

Hitchcock's Romantic Irony

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231135757
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Romantic Irony written by Richard Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

The Hitchcock Romance

Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218137
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Hitchcock Romance written by Lesley Brill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock's self-assessment unquestioned, but this book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Lesley Brill discusses Hitchcock's work as a whole and examines in detail twenty-two films, from perennial favorites like North by Northwest to neglected masterpieces like Rich and Strange.

Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137472812
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock written by Debbie Olson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.

A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444397311
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock written by Thomas Leitch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors’ silent films to his last uncompleted last film Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike

Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183871426X
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Richard Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Eastern Approaches to Western Film

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135011331X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Approaches to Western Film written by Stephen Teo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the critical studies of Western films by reappraising selected films of these masters, matching and comparing their visions, themes, and ideas with the philosophical and paradigmatic principles of the East. It traces Eastern inscriptions and signs embedded within these films as well as their social lifestyle values and other concepts that are also inherently Eastern. As such, the book represents an effort to reformulate established discourses on Western cinema that are overwhelmingly Eurocentric. Although it seeks to inject an alternative perspective, the ultimate aim is to reach a balance of East and West. By focusing on Eastern aesthetic and philosophical influences in Western films, the book suggests that there is a much more thorough integration of East and West than previously thought or imagined.

Violence in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Author : David Humbert
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952911
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock written by David Humbert and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parting ways with the Freudian and Lacanian readings that have dominated recent scholarly understanding of Hitchcock, David Humbert examines the roots of violence in the director’s narratives and finds them not in human sexuality but in mimesis. Through an analysis of seven key films, he argues that Girard’s model of mimetic desire—desire oriented by imitation of and competition with others—best explains a variety of well-recognized themes, including the MacGuffin, the double, the innocent victim, the wrong man, the transfer of guilt, and the scapegoat. This study will appeal not only to Hitchcock fans and film scholars but also to those interested in Freud and Girard and their competing theories of desire.

The Hitchcock Annual Anthology

Author : Sidney Gottlieb
Publisher : Hitchcock Annual
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Hitchcock Annual Anthology written by Sidney Gottlieb and published by Hitchcock Annual. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features contributions from such leading critics as Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Bill Krohn, and Mark Rappaport, and includes essays on the full range of Hitchcock's work, from the lesser-known silents to his late American masterpieces.

The Women Who Knew Too Much

Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135199868
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Women Who Knew Too Much written by Tania Modleski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine the mastery of the cinematic Master of Suspense. This new edition features a new chapter which considers the last 15 years of Hitchcock criticism as it relates to the ideas in this landmark book.

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.

Psycho-Sexual

Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742029
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Psycho-Sexual written by David Greven and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Alfred Hitchcock's themes of heterosexual male ambivalence and homoeroticism influence some of the films of directors Brian De Palma, Martin Scorcese and William Friedkin.

Hitchcock's Motifs

Author : Michael Walker
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567739
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's Motifs written by Michael Walker and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes from his TV series. Connections and deeper inflections that Hitchcock fans may have long sensed or suspected can now be seen for what they are: an intricately spun web of cross-references which gives this unique artist's work the depth, consistency and resonance that justifies Hitchcock's place as probably the best know film director ever. The title, the first book-length study of the subject, can be used as a mini-encyclopaedia of Hitchcock's motifs, but the individual entries also give full attention to the wider social contexts, hidden sources and the sometimes unconscious meanings present in the work and solidly linking it to its time and place.

English Romantic Irony

Author : Anne K. Mellor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674420700
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book English Romantic Irony written by Anne K. Mellor and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

Author : William Rothman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537301
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Must We Kill the Thing We Love? written by William Rothman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, “Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in Emerson’s writings, that gave classical Hollywood movies of the New Deal era their extraordinary combination of popularity and artistic seriousness. A Hitchcock thriller could be a comedy of remarriage or a melodrama of an unknown woman, both Emersonian genres, except for the murderous villain and godlike author, Hitchcock, who pulls the villain’s strings—and ours. Because Hitchcock believed that the camera has a murderous aspect, the question “What if anything justifies killing?,” which every Hitchcock film engages, was for him a disturbing question about his own art. Tracing the trajectory of Hitchcock’s career, Rothman discerns a progression in the films’ meditations on murder and artistic creation. This progression culminates in Marnie (1964), Hitchcock’s most controversial film, in which Hitchcock overcame his ambivalence and fully embraced the Emersonian worldview he had always also resisted. Reading key Emerson passages with the degree of attention he accords to Hitchcock sequences, Rothman discovers surprising affinities between Hitchcock’s way of thinking cinematically and the philosophical way of thinking Emerson’s essays exemplify. He finds that the terms in which Emerson thought about reality, about our “flux of moods,” about what it is within us that never changes, about freedom, about America, about reading, about writing, and about thinking are remarkably pertinent to our experience of films and to thinking and writing about them. He also reflects on the implications of this discovery, not only for Hitchcock scholarship but also for film criticism in general.

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

Author : C. Sprengler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230392164
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock and Contemporary Art written by C. Sprengler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. His works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image.

The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107107571
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Companion, leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's interplay with the Hollywood studio system, the Cold War, and new forms of sexuality, gender, and desire over his thirty-year American career.