A Dream Of Hitchcock

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438472096

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A Dream of Hitchcock by Murray Pomerance Pdf

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike. A Dream of Hitchcock examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock’s work—dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect—by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Saboteur, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and Family Plot. The Hitchcockian dream, as invoked here, is not so much a dream as it is a way of understanding, in its dramatic contexts, an “unearthly,” irrational quality in the filmmaker’s work. Rebecca revolves around problems of memory; To Catch a Thief around uncertainty; Saboteur around pungent aspiration; Family Plot around intuition; Rear Window around expansive imagination; and Strangers on a Train around delirious madness. All of these films enunciate the return of the past, the invocation of a boundary beyond which experience becomes unpredictable and uncertain, and the celebration of values that transcend narrative resolution. Murray Pomerance’s distinctive method for thinking through Hitchcock’s work allows these films to inform theorization, not the other way around. His original, provocative, and groundbreaking explorations point to the importance of fantasy, improbability, doubt disconcertion, hope, memory, intuition, and belief, through which the oneiric comes to the center of waking life. Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto. He has published dozens of volumes on cinema, including four books on Alfred Hitchcock: An Eye for Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock’s America, Marnie, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Author : James Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1902944003

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I Dream of Alfred Hitchcock by James Robertson Pdf

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813533953

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An Eye for Hitchcock by Murray Pomerance Pdf

Film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema. Two of the films are extraordinarily famous and have been seen - and misunderstood - countless times: North by Northwest and Vertigo. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics, or considered to be colossal mistakes, while two others, Spellbound and I Confess have received almost no critical attention at all. Hitchcock's vision and his screen architecture, revealing key elements and showing how Hitchcock was profoundly interested not only in social class, but also in humanity's philosophical predicament, as we traverse a world fraught with shifting appearances, multiple deceptions, vulnerability and peril. Pomerance also reveals the link between Hitchcock's work and a wide range of thinkers and artists in other fields.

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438485263

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A Voyage with Hitchcock by Murray Pomerance Pdf

Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive meditations on six films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. Murray Pomerance's sources come from a wide territory of interest, including production study, philosophy, cultural history, and more. The book is written as an homage to, and in many ways address to, not only the story content of these films but, more importantly, their overall filmic texture, which involves compositions, visual nuances, sounds, rhythms, and Hitchcock's unique treatments of human experience. The voyage theme plays a key—and moving—role in all the films discussed here.

Author : Nathaniel West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030238422

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Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Nathaniel West Pdf

Author : Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bible
ISBN : MSU:31293103177014

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Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X002177823

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Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible: Or, The Whole of the Old and New Testaments Arranged According to Subjects in Twenty-seven Books by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Dennis R. Perry
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810848228

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Hitchcock and Poe by Dennis R. Perry Pdf

This study explores the aesthetic of Poe and Hitchcock in terms of a set of common obsessions, techniques, and genres. The structure of the study revolves around Eureka, Poe's explicit and allegorical treatise on the development of the universe. Each chapter explores the similarities and differences between Poe's and Hitchcock's treatment of such issues as doubles, the perverse, voyeurism, and romantic obsession. While Hitchcock's films consistently mirror plots, imagery, and relationships within Poe's tales, Perry also shows how Hitchcock's resistance to the traditional trappings of gothic tales sets his films apart from the works of Poe and gives them a unique touch.

Author : Robert J. Yanal
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786482306

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Hitchcock as Philosopher by Robert J. Yanal Pdf

The films of Alfred Hitchcock deal heavily with psychological and philosophical themes, and one needn't look very far into the canon to find them. In Psycho, for example, the personality metamorphosis in Marion Crane that leads her into grand larceny is a pale double of the murderous oedipal divide in Norman Bates. In The Birds, overbearing natural mutations turn what might have been a "creature feature" into a film about fear of the unknowable. This book looks at 12 Hitchcock films and the positions they put forth on three problem areas of epistemology: deception, knowledge of mind, and problematic knowledge of the external world. These philosophical concepts are explained and woven into the author's thorough and thought-provoking discussion of each film. Descartes and Wittengenstein star; Plato, Locke, Hume, Kant and Kierkegaard also make appearances in this new "philosopher's cut" of the master's works.

Author : Edward White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324002406

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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White Pdf

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 : Paul Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3836566842

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Alfred Hitchcock by Paul Duncan Pdf

Meet the inventor of modern horror. This complete guide to the Hitchcock canon is a movie buff's dream: from his 1925 debut The Pleasure Garden to 1976's swan song Family Plot, we trace the filmmaker's entire life and career. With a detailed entry for each of Hitchcock's 53 movies, this clothbound book combines insightful texts, photography, ...

Author : William Hare
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476608402

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Hitchcock and the Methods of Suspense by William Hare Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock had a gift for turning the familiar into the unfamiliar, the mundane into the unexpected. A director known for planning the entire movie before the first day of filming began by using the storyboard approach, Hitchcock was renowned for his relaxed directing style, resulting in an excellent rapport with his actors. Decades later, Hitchcock’s films stand as sterling examples of innovative technique, infused with meaning that only repeated viewing can reveal. This work examines themes, techniques, and the filmmaking process in 15 of Hitchcock’s best known films: The 39 Steps, Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Notorious, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Frenzy and Family Plot. It explores the auteur’s treatments of psychoanalysis, voyeurism, and collective fears during the Cold War. Also presented are key stories behind several Hitchcock classics, such as the director’s stormy relationships with Raymond Chandler and David O. Selznick that resulted in synergetic success for some of his most successful films. The book includes numerous photographs and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Robin Wood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231126956

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Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood Pdf

When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film and as a necessary text in the growing body of Hitchcock criticism. This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic--including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life and have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition also includes a new chapter on Marnie.

Author : Robert Phillip Kolker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195169195

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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho by Robert Phillip Kolker Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook 'brings together critical essays on this influential and teachable film. The essays not only elaborate on the complexities of the film, but represent the spectrum of film criticism, including an analysis of its music and close readings illustrated by many stills from the film.

Author : Stephen Whitty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442251601

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The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia by Stephen Whitty Pdf

Several decades after his last motion picture was produced, Alfred Hitchcock is still regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of cinema. From silents of the 1920s to his final feature in 1976, the director’s many films continue to entertain audiences and inspire filmmakers. In The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia, film critic Stephen Whitty provides a detailed overview of the director's work. This reference volume features in-depth critical entries on each of his major films as well as biographical essays on his most frequent collaborators and discussions of significant themes in his work. For this book, Whitty draws on primary-source materials such as interviews he conducted with associates of the director—including screenwriter Jay Presson Allen (Marnie), actresses Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest) and Kim Novak (Vertigo), actor Farley Granger (Strangers on a Train), actor and producer Norman Lloyd (Saboteur), and Hitchcock’s daughter Patricia (Stage Fright; Psycho)—among others. Encompassing the entire range of the director’s career—from early influences and silent films to his decade-long television show and cameos in nearly every feature—this is a comprehensive overview of cinema’s ultimate showman. A detailed and lively look at the master of suspense, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia will be of interest to professors, students, and the many fans of the director’s work.