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Hitchcock s Romantic Irony
Author | : Richard Allen |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780231509671 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780231135740 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780691218137 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-12-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781137472816 |
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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.
Psycho Sexual
Author | : David Greven |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-01-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780292742024 |
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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.
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Author | : Stephen Teo |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781350113312 |
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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.
A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
Author | : Thomas Leitch,Leland Poague |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781444397314 |
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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
Shadow of a Doubt
Author | : Diane Negra |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781800858503 |
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcock’s sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite and his best. It seems likely that one of the reasons he liked Shadow so much is that is an extraordinarily well-ordered narrative system, a meticulous cause and effect chain that melds its various scenes and sequences together to form a unified narrative that is highly effective in building suspense and cultivating identification with characters. This scrupulously organized film operates as a masterclass on principles of narrative design while generating resonant commentary on the nature of family life. This book redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to Shadow even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship. Analysing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and ‘family values’, Diane Negra shows how the film’s impeccable narrative structure is wedded to radical ideological content, linking the film’s terrors to the punishing effects of looking beyond conventional family and gender roles. This book understands Shadow as an unconventionally female-centred Hitchcock text and a milestone film that marks the director’s emergent engagement with the pathologies of violence in American life and opens a window into the placement of femininity in World War II consensus culture and more broadly into the politics of mid-century gender and family life.