Alfred Hitchcock S Frenzy

Author : Raymond Foery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810877566

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Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy by Raymond Foery Pdf

After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood. The film he came to shoot there would mark a return to the style for which he had become known and would restore him to international acclaim. Like The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest before, Frenzy repeated the classic Hitchcock trope of a man on the run from the police while chasing down the real criminal. But unlike those previous works, Frenzy also featured some elements that were new to the master of suspense’s films, including explicit nudity, depraved behavior, and a brutal act that would challenge Psycho’s shower scene for the most disturbing depiction of violence in a Hitchcock film. In Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Raymond Foery recounts the history—writing, preprod

Author : Ian Cooper (Freelance writer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Frenzy (Motion picture)
ISBN : 1800342284

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Frenzy by Ian Cooper (Freelance writer) Pdf

'Frenzy' was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, & arguably one of his most misunderstood and neglected. Whereas even 'Psycho' did eventually become respectable - indeed, it is a good contender for the most admired of the Master's films - 'Frenzy' still remains problematic for many. While Raymond De Foery makes his feelings clear in the title of his book, 'Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece', Hitchcock's controversial biographer Donald Spoto calls the film 'repulsive' & 'a closed & coldly negative vision of human possibility'. 'Frenzy' is perhaps Hitchcock's most nakedly autobiographical film, representing both a comeback & farewell to the city of his birth. But it started out as a very different kind of project. This book discusses the evolution of the film, its production, reception, & place in Hitchcock's oeuvre, as well as its status as a key film of 'seventies' British cinema.

Author : Ian Cooper
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800347090

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Frenzy by Ian Cooper Pdf

Frenzy is perhaps Hitchcock's most nakedly autobiographical film, representing both a comeback and farewell to the city of his birth. Ian Cooper discusses the evolution of the film, its production, reception, and place in Hitchcock's oeuvre, as well as its status as a key film of "sleazy Seventies" British cinema.

Author : Arthur La Bern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Frenzy by Arthur La Bern Pdf

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Kees Moerbeek
Publisher : Little Simon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0689875959

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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense by Kees Moerbeek Pdf

This deluxe gift book is a must-have tribute to the master of suspense and film noir, Alfred Hitchcock. It includes a three-dimensional treatment of key icons/scenes from stills of each of the following Hitchcock classics: "Saboteur, Psycho, Marnie, The Birds, Frenzy, Torn Curtain," and "Vertigo."

Author : Edward White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Francois Truffaut
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501143229

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Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut Pdf

Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time. In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to his color films in Hollywood. The result is a portrait of one of the greatest directors the world has ever known, an all-round specialist who masterminded everything, from the screenplay and the photography to the editing and the soundtrack. Hitchcock discusses the inspiration behind his films and the art of creating fear and suspense, as well as giving strikingly honest assessments of his achievements and failures, his doubts and hopes. This peek into the brain of one of cinema’s greats is a must-read for all film aficionados.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107107571

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The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock by Jonathan Freedman Pdf

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.

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847397096

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It's Only a Movie by Charlotte Chandler Pdf

IT'S ONLY A MOVIE is as close to an autobiography by Alfred Hitchcock that you could ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with her subject, his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.

Author : Richard Allen,Sam Ishii-Gonzales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134477227

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Hitchcock by Richard Allen,Sam Ishii-Gonzales Pdf

This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers Hitchcock both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory. The contributions, who include leading scholars such as Slavoj Zizek, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and James Naremore, discuss canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside lesser-known works including Juno and the Paycock and Frenzy. Articles are grouped into four thematic sections: 'Authorship and Aesthetics' examines Hitchcock as auteur and investigates central topics in Hitchcockian aesthetics. 'French Hitchcock' looks at Hitchcock's influence on filmmakers such as Chabrol, Truffaut and Rohmer, and how film critics such as Bazin and Deleuze have engaged with Hitchcock's work. 'Poetics and Politics of Identity' explores the representation of personal and political in Hitchcock's work. The final section, 'Death and Transfiguration' addresses the manner in which the spectacle and figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock's films, in particular his subversive masterpiece Psycho.

Author : Paul Duncan
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781842435410

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Alfred Hitchcock by Paul Duncan Pdf

Who was Hitchcock? A fat man who played practical jokes on people? A control freak who humiliated others to make himself look better? A little boy afraid of the dark? One of the greatest storytellers of the century? He was all of these and more - twenty years after his death, he is still a household name; most people in the Western world have seen his film, and he popularised the action movie format we see every week on the cinema screen.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578065623

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Alfred Hitchcock by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Hitchcock is still one of the most instantly recognizable film directors. These conversations dramatize his wit, intelligence, sophistication, serious contemplation, and even the playful manipulation of the interviewer.

Author : Richard Allen,S. Ishii-Gonzalès
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Detective and mystery films
ISBN : 0415275253

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Hitchcock by Richard Allen,S. Ishii-Gonzalès Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock's films have had an impact on scholars of all critical persuasions to the extent that the study of his works is synonymous with the study of 20th century cinema itself. These essays reflect the length and breadth of this scholarship.

Author : Anna Massey
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063335361

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Telling Some Tales by Anna Massey Pdf

'Telling Some Tales' is the autobiography of Anna Massey, who, in 2005, was awarded a CBE for services to drama. After all the upsets, Anna ends her book with the story of personal happiness, achieved without make-up, lighting or script. It does not kiss & tell, but is a funny & emotional account of a life intensely lived.