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Author : Dan Aulier,J. Madison Davis,Professor of Journalism Professional Writing Program J Madison Davis
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743400178
An Alfred Hitchcock mystery.
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571210600
Alfred Hitchcock relished his power to frighten us and believed the shocks he administered improved our psychological health. But he could never satisfactorily explain our curiosity to see forbidden things or the perverse desire to experience anxiety and dread that made his work so popular. In The Hitchcock Murders, Peter Conrad, one of Hitchcock's eager victims, undertakes the task on the master's behalf. At the age of thirteen, Conrad snuck into his first screening of Psycho, and he's been wary of showers and fruit cellars ever since. Thanks to Hitchcock, he's also suspicious of staircases, seagulls, and crop-dusting planes. Now he sets out to analyze the nature of Hitchcock's appeal to both himself and the millions of moviegoers for whom Hitchcock is cinema's foremost auteur. Examining Hitchcock's use of religion, morality, conscience, culpability, and literary symbols, Conrad unveils a chilling Nietzschean universe-one in which there is no God and no moral standard, where humans are petty and disposable and the neutral hand of fate can take a life in the blink of an eye. A timid, respectable man with the imagination of a psychopath, a chubby jester whose practical jokes took merciless advantage of human insecurities, Hitchcock is revealed here as the man who knew too much-about all of us.
Author : Thomson David Thomson,David Thomson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781458757968
In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.
Author : Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine,Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Staff
Publisher : Arrowood Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 088486085X
Author : Sidney Gottlieb,Donal Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780861969883
When Richard Schickel stated unequivocally in 1972 that "We're living in a Hitchcock world, all right", he did so without even mentioning the film that now stands at the top of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll: Vertigo. That omission needs to be redressed when we think about the Hitchcock world we live in now. Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock's Masterpiece Then and Now gathers essays that offer a variety of approaches to what many consider to be Hitchcock's signature film, one that shows him operating at full strength as a cinematic artist portraying some of the defining elements of modern life: romantic exhilaration and anxiety, the attractiveness and elusiveness of love, and the interpenetration of pain, pleasure, life, and death in our psyche and our culture. The pieces in this volume explore numerous aspects of how, broadly speaking, Vertigo is about characters haunted by memories and desires; how the film itself is haunted by numerous literary and cinematic fore- bearers; and how it continues to haunt not only filmmakers but artists working in other media as well. Essays that concentrate on formative or interpretive contexts of the film, including Greek mythology, early German cinema, film noir, an ensemble of (mostly) French writers and filmmakers, andmodern and postmodern art are complemented by others that present close readings of hidden details in the film, its use of multiple gazes that underscore its meaning and drama, the darker sides of even gestures of love and hospitality, and how the film embodies Hitchcock's "late style". Taken together the essays in the volume reinforce how Vertigo is, like the majestic trees visited by the two main characters in the film, sempervirens – an enduring masterpiece of then, now, and, we can safely say, the future.
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0883657279
47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
Author : Alec Coppel,Samuel Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : OCLC:8639507
Author : J. Madison Davis,Dan Aulier
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743407288
In 1957, Alfred Hitchcock is filming his latest thriller, Vertigo. The famous director receives a woman's ear and decides to investigate with the help of retired LAPD detective Chess Slatery.
Author : Lindsey McIntosh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783668433021
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Art - Photography and Film, grade: A, University of Strathclyde, language: English, abstract: The principle objective of this essay will be to explore and explicate the relationship between art and death within two films by Alfred Hitchcock: Rope (1948) and Vertigo (1958). Discussing Hitchcock’s filmography in ‘Saying it With Pictures’, Erik S. Lunde and Douglas A. Noverr credit the influence of art to be of paramount importance to the director’s visual form, remarking that ‘a great interest in the fine arts strengthened the cinematic vision displayed in countless brilliantly conceived photographic images in his films’ (Loukides and Fuller 1993, p.97). Both critics trace an admiration for the classical arts to have flourished in the director’s youth as he immersed himself in painting classes during his time at the University of London (Ibid). Later in life, art would assume a strong place within both Hitchcock’s personal and professional personas; within his private sphere Hitchcock accumulated interest in original works of art, collecting pieces by artists such as Paul Klee, Auguste Rodin and Salvador Dali. Professionally, a fascination with the visual arts would infiltrate his body of work, with portraits, paintings and sculptures featuring predominantly within the majority of his films. [...] As part of centenary celebrations of the filmmaker’s work, a unique visual exhibition was unveiled to commemorate the intimate relationship between art and Hitchcock films. Opening in 2000, an exhibition titled ‘Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences’ opened in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Captioned as a ‘celebration of Hitchcock’s personal creative expression’ (Moral 2002, p.171), ‘Fatal Coincidences’ was designed by Guy Cogeval and Dominique Paini to feature over two hundred artworks spanning across the previous two centuries, depicting familiar scenes of art echoed within Hitchcock’s own body of work. Whilst the exhibition has excelled in establishing the painterly parallels present between the real world of art and the surreal world of Hitchcock, the ambition of this work will be to open up discussion of Hitchcock’s artistic influences further. It proposes that art serves not merely as a background prop which accompanies the favoured theme of death quintessential to Hitchcockian narrative, but rather that art becomes embalmed with macabre properties which subconsciously enrich the audience’s perception of the director’s intentions. [...]
Author : T. Schlipfinger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783656189886
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,5, University of Innsbruck (Amerikanistik), course: Memory in Film and Literature, language: English, abstract: It is hard to determine the one single defining factor that makes Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo what it is today: by many considered to be one of the best movies ever made. The plot is – despite all its unrealism – thrilling from the first minute to the last. James Stewart’s and Kim Novak’s performances are more than convincing to say the least and Bernard Herrmann’s music dug itself into the collective ears of a whole generation. However, there is one thing that all those factors have in common and which therefore, arguably, defines the power of Vertigo most accurately: in a way all those features suck the viewers into the movie and take them on a spiral-like journey down to the bottom of Vertigo. This becomes apparent from the first minute onwards, when Hitchcock establishes the spiral as the defining motif of his movie during the intro-sequence. In this paper I am going to argue that the whole movie follows a spiral-like structure and through repetition of certain motifs Hitchcock is able to suck the viewer deeper and deeper into the story of Vertigo.
Author : Markus Hirsch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783756865895
"The Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock - legendärer Filmregisseur, Großmeister des Spannungskinos, Kulturikone & Figur der Zeitgeschichte. Ins Zentrum seines Buches "Six Movies To Be Murdered By - Das Kino des Alfred Hitchcock" hat der Grazer Autor Markus Hirsch sechs Hitchcock-Klassiker (Bei Anruf Mord / Das Fenster zum Hof / Vertigo - Aus dem Reich der Toten / Psycho / Der unsichtbare Dritte / Marnie) gestellt, die exemplarisch sind für Hitchcock's Art des "puren Kinos" und für die einzigartige Mischung aus Ernsthaftigkeit & Heiterkeit, die die Filme des Regisseurs durchzieht. An zahlreichen Stellen kommt der "Meister der Suspense", und das vor allem auf der Basis von Ausschnitten aus den legendären Unterhaltungen Hitchcocks mit dem französischen Star-Filmer François Truffaut, selbst zu Wort und liefert Hintergrundinfos zur Entstehungsgeschichte und vor allem zu einzelnen wichtigen Szenen der vorgestellten Filme, so wie zum Beispiel zur berühmten "Duschmord-Szene" in Psycho - "Hitch is back!"
Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0883656442
Sixty-five stories deal with gangsters, kidnappings, unidentified bodies, political refugees, adultery, murder, and espionage
Author : William Rothman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002539125
Confronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports. The early narratives were shaped by a strong belief in original sin and spiritual redemption, by the idea that all murders were natural manifestations of the innate depravity of humankind. In a dramatic departure from that view, the Gothic imagination--with its central conventions of the fundamental horror and mystery of the crime--seized upon the murderer as a moral monster, separated from the normal majority by an impassable gulf. Halttunen shows how this perception helped shape the modern response to criminal transgression, mandating criminal incarceration, and informing a social-scientific model of criminal deviance. The Gothic expression of horror and inhumanity is the predominant response to radical evil today; it has provided a set of conventions surrounding tales of murder that appear to be natural and instinctive, when in fact they are rooted in the nineteenth century. Halttunen's penetrating insight into her extraordinary treasure trove of creepy popular crime literature reveals how our stories have failed to make sense of the killer and how that failure has constrained our understanding and treatment of criminality today.
Author : Alec Coppel,Samuel Albert Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1152933090
Author : Stephen Rebello
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781453201220
A “meticulous history” of the classic suspense film based on exclusive interviews with the director, writers, cast, and crew (The New York Times Book Review). First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it, which has been adapted as a movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh. Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of Hollywood’s most iconic films, from the story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to Hitchcock’s groundbreaking achievements in cinematography, sound, editing, and promotion. Packed with captivating insights from the film’s stars, writers, and crewmembers, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is a riveting and definitive history of a signature Hitchcock cinematic masterpiece.