A Hitchcock Reader

Author : Marshall Deutelbaum,Leland Poague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405155564

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A Hitchcock Reader by Marshall Deutelbaum,Leland Poague Pdf

This new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be used as a critical text in introductory or advanced film courses, while also satisfying Hitchcock scholars by representing the rich variety of critical responses to the director's films over the years. a total of 20 of Hitchcock's films are discussed in depth - many others are considered in passing section introductions by the editors that contextualize the essays and the films they discuss well-researched bibliographic references, which will allow readers to broaden the scope of their study of Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Thomas Leitch,Leland Poague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781444397314

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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock by Thomas Leitch,Leland Poague Pdf

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

Author : Edward White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : George Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015056801346

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One-man Boat by George Hitchcock Pdf

"One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader" is an eclectic and lively anthology celebrating his colorful oeuvre--surreal, political, and found poems; provocative plays and short stories; candid interviews, reviews, and essays; and his (in)famous (and comically subversive) testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, reprinted from the Congressional Record."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062028648

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Alfred Hitchcock by Patrick McGilligan Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time. In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 60 films – including The 39 Steps, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling. Acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan re-examines his life and extraordinary work, challenging perceptions of Hitchcock as the “macabre Englishman” and sexual obsessive, and reveals instead the ingenious craftsman, trickster, provocateur, and romantic. With insights into his relationships with Hollywood legends – such as Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly – as well as his 54-year marriage to Alma Reville and his inspirations in the thriller genre, the book is full of the same dark humor, cliffhanger suspense, and revelations that are synonymous with one of the most famous and misunderstood figures in cinema.

Author : Robin Wood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385418133

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The Art of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto Pdf

This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list—Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound—brings a flood of memories. In this essential text, reissued on the occasion of Hitchcock's centennial, internationally renowned Hitchcock authority Donald Spoto describes and analyzes every movie made by this master filmmaker. Illustrated throughout with shots from each film, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock also includes a storyboard section, a complete filmography, and “A Hitchcock Album” (sixteen pages of photos) as an added celebration of his life.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0370014367

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents a Month of Mystery by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Jim McDevitt,Eric San Juan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810863897

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A Year of Hitchcock by Jim McDevitt,Eric San Juan Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to-film development, spanning from the beginning of his career in silents to his final film in 1976, including his work on two French propaganda shorts he directed during World War II and segments he directed for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Organized into 52 chapters and arranged in chronological order, the book invites readers to spend a year with the director's most notable works, all of which are available on DVD. Each film is examined in the context of Hitchcock's career, as the authors consider the themes central to his work; discuss each film's production; comment on the cast, script, and other aspects of the film; and assess the film's value to the Hitchcock viewer. From The Lodger to Family Plot, 68 works directed by Hitchcock are analyzed. Each analysis is supplemented by key film facts, trivia, awards, a guide to his cameos, a filmography, and a listing of available DVD releases. Whether readers decide to undertake the journey through his films one week at a time or pick and choose at their discretion, A Year of Hitchcock will open the eyes of any viewer who wants to better understand this director's evolution as an artist.

Author : William Rothman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002516618

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Hitchcock--the Murderous Gaze by William Rothman Pdf

Author : Sharon Dolin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781949597165

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Hitchcock Blonde by Sharon Dolin Pdf

A heady cocktail of sex and trauma, refracted through the lens of ten of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic movies. Imagine an episodic memoir that braids together insights about Alfred Hitchcock's movies with the narrative of a woman's life: scenes of growing up in Brooklyn in the sixties and seventies as the daughter of a schizophrenic mother and a traveling salesman father, adolescent sexual traumas, and adult botched marriages and relationships— all refracted through the lens of ten of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic movies. In each chapter, the narrator—an award-winning poet—trains her idiosyncratic lens on a different film and then onto the uncanny connections they conjure up from her own life. A singular cliffhanging tale, reminiscent in style of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0394912241

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Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Nine short stories featuring haunted houses.

Author : Nicholas Haeffner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874874

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Alfred Hitchcock by Nicholas Haeffner Pdf

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock's prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resulted in 53 films of which Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) are now seen as classics within the suspense, melodrama and horror genres. In contrast to previous works, which have attempted to get inside Hitchcock's mind and psychoanalyse his films, this book takes a more materialist stance. As Haeffner makes clear, Hitchcock was simultaneously a professional film maker working as part of a team in the film factories of Hollywood, a media celebrity, and an aspiring artist gifted with considerable entrepreneurial flair for marketing himself and his films. The book makes a case for locating the director's remarkable body of work within traditions of highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture, appealing to different audience constituencies in a calculated strategy. The book upholds the case for taking Hitchcock's work seriously and challenges his popular reputation as a misogynist through detailed analyses of his most controversial films.

Author : David Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049982765

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The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock by David Freeman Pdf

Hitchcock's final, unproduced screenplay and the revealing memoirs of his last collaborator--now back in print with a new introduction by the author in honor of Hitchcock's centenary.

Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UOM:39015008294426

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Alfred Hitchcock by Gene D. Phillips Pdf

Focuses on the career and achievements of the director who envisioned a new kind of thriller.