Fatal Coincidences An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Art And Death In Alfred Hitchcock S Rope 1948 And Vertigo 1958

Author : Lindsey McIntosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668433038

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"Fatal Coincidences". An Exploration of the Relationship Between Art and Death in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" (1948) and "Vertigo" (1958) by Lindsey McIntosh Pdf

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 e

Author : Lindsey McIntosh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783668433021

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"Fatal Coincidences". An exploration of the relationship between art and death in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rope" (1948) and "Vertigo" (1958) by Lindsey McIntosh Pdf

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 : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher : Mazzotta
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050804007

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Hitchcock and Art by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Pdf

Movies are unquestionably one of the cutting-edge media in 20th-century artistic production, a discipline that has contributed more than any other to fashioning the visual culture of our contemporaries and of the artists of our day and age. The Center Pompidou continues its policy of publicizing trail-blazing references to cinematographic culture by presenting the exhibition Hitchcock and Art which first went on show in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and whose Paris debut is marked by an adaptation and some significant additions, primarily by the arrival of works from the collections held in the Musee' National d'Art Moderne. Keeping faith with the Centre's multidisciplinary vocation of exploring and valorizing relationships between the different fields of modern and contemporary artistic creation, the exhibition aims at establishing a dialogue and revealing correlations between a leading, complex and universally known opus of cinematography work on the one hand and artistic movements on the other, from Romanticism to Surrealism, as well as architecture or graphic design, which left such a profound mark as they nourished Alfred Hitchcock's imagery and aesthetic. Hitchcock and Art provides the Centre with a chance to offer the public not only the exhibition, but also Hitchcock's complete repertoire of films.

Author : Walter Raubicheck,Walter Srebnick
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 081432326X

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Hitchcock's Rereleased Films by Walter Raubicheck,Walter Srebnick Pdf

Features essays from some fifteen authors written about Hitchcock and five of his most significant films: Rear window, Vertigo, The man who knew too much, Rope, and The trouble with Harry.

Author : Richard Allen,Sam Ishii-Gonzales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714277

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Alfred Hitchcock by Richard Allen,Sam Ishii-Gonzales Pdf

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.

Author : William Hare
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307567147

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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 : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781666915921

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Classical Vertigo by Mark William Padilla Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has dazzled and challenged audiences with its unique aesthetic design and startling plot devices since its release in 1958. In Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Film, Mark William Padilla analyzes antecedents including: (1) the film’s source novel, D’entre les morts (Among the Dead), (2) the earlier symbolist novel, Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-morte, and (3) the first-draft screenplay of Maxwell Anderson, a prominent Broadway dramatist and Hollywood scenarist from the 1920s to the 1950s. The presence of Vertigo amid these texts reveals and clarifies how themes from Greco-Roman antiquity emerge in Hitchcock’s project. Padilla analyzes narrative figures such as Prometheus and Pandora, Persephone and Hades, and Pygmalion and Galatea, as well as themes like the dark plots of Greek tragedy, to reveal how Hitchcock used allusive form to construct an emotionally powerful experience with an often-minimalist script. This analysis demonstrates that Vertigo is a multifaceted work of intertextuality with artistic and cultural roots extending into antiquity itself.

Author : Nicholas Haeffner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0440117224

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Author : David Sterritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521398142

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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by David Sterritt Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the few filmmakers to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great massive-audience popularity. This introduction to his oeuvre provides an overview of a long and prolific career.

Author : Subarna Mondal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9798765101193

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy by Subarna Mondal Pdf

There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs – taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship.

Author : Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813160849

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Hitchcock Lost and Found by Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr Pdf

Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of his iconic Hollywood-era films like Notorious (1946) and Vertigo (1958), Hitchcock Lost and Found moves beyond these seminal works to explore forgotten, incomplete, lost, and recovered productions from all stages of his career, including his early years in Britain. Authors Alain Kerzoncuf and Charles Barr highlight Hitchcock's neglected works, including various films and television productions that supplement the critical attention already conferred on his feature films. They also explore the director's career during World War II, when he continued making high-profile features while also committing himself to a number of short war-effort projects on both sides of the Atlantic. Focusing on a range of forgotten but fascinating projects spanning five decades, Hitchcock Lost and Found offers a new, fuller perspective on the filmmaker's career and achievements.

Author : Marc Raymond Strauss
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481927

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Alfred Hitchcock's Silent Films by Marc Raymond Strauss Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock called the silent "the purest form of cinema," and the ten silent films he directed between 1925 and 1929 reveal the young director's mature artistry. Hitchcock's silents have often been characterized as the work of a talented amateur, a young director practicing his craft during a pre-sound era of antiquated instruments and poor film techniques--the director experimented with myriad points of view, unique camera angles and movements, and special effects such as dissolves, blurriness, and violent cuts. These films, however, contain the first appearances of some of his greatest and most familiar techniques: the vertigo-inducing crowd scene, the symbolic use of inanimate objects, the manipulation of the audience's emotions, and the self-conscious, often macabre wit. This work discovers Hitchcock's early talent and skill through close readings of the films from The Pleasure Garden to the silent version of Blackmail, using shot-by-shot descriptions and interpretations. Each film's chapter includes technical information, a summary of the critical response from the film's release to the present, and detailed analysis of the camera techniques and themes Hitchcock uses.

Author : Thomas M. Leitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816043868

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The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock by Thomas M. Leitch Pdf

Presents the life and career of Alfred Hitchcock with detailed information on his films, including technical information, themes, style, and film theory.