Hitchcock S British Films

Author : Maurice Yacowar
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0814334946

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Hitchcock's British Films by Maurice Yacowar Pdf

Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar's Hitchcock's British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his native England before he came to the United States. As such, it was the first book to challenge the assumption that Hitchcock's "mature" period in Hollywood, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, represented the director's best work. In this traditional auteurist examination of Hitchcock's early work, author Maurice Yacowar considers Hitchcock's British films in chronological order, reads the composition of individual shots and scenes in each, and pays special attention to the films' verbal effects. Yacowar's readings remain compelling more than thirty years after they were written, and some-on Downhill, Champagne, and Waltzes from Vienna-are among the few extended interpretations of these films that exist. Alongside important works such as Murder , the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Secret Agent, The Lady Vanishes, and Blackmail, readers will appreciate Yacowar's equal attention to lesser-known films like The Pleasure Garden, The Ring, and The Manxman. Yacowar dissects Hitchcock's precise staging and technical production to draw out ethical themes and metaphysical meanings of each film, while keeping a close eye on the source material, such as novels and plays, that Hitchcock used as the inspiration for many of his screenplays. Yacowar concludes with an overview of Hitchcock as auteur and an appendix identifying the director's appearances in these films. A foreword by Barry Keith Grant and a preface to the second edition from Yacowar complete this comprehensive volume. Anyone interested in Hitchcock, classic British cinema, or the history of film will appreciate Yacowar's accessible and often witty exploration of the director's early work.

Author : Tom Ryall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780567534163

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Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema by Tom Ryall Pdf

First published in 1986, this standard account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making is now available again in a Second Edition with a new Introduction and Bibliography. It will be welcomed by all students of the film and admirers of Hitchcock.

Author : Tom Ryall
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015011613943

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Alfred Hitchcock & the British Cinema by Tom Ryall Pdf

First published in 1986, this standard account of Hitchcock's British films and film-making is now available again in a Second Edition with a new Introduction and Bibliography. It will be welcomed by all students of the film and admirers of Hitchcock.

Author : Charles Barr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029449019

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English Hitchcock by Charles Barr Pdf

Author : Don Shiach
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781843447504

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Great British Movies by Don Shiach Pdf

Which British movies are the best that this country has produced? In this volume Don Shiach encapsulates the peaks of the British film achievement from the beginning of the sound era to the first decade of the 21st century. The giant figures of the 1930s, Alfred Hitchcock and Alexander Korda, set a standard for the domestic film industry in its attempt to challenge the domination of the Hollywood film. Many saw the 1940s as the Golden Age of British cinema with directors such as Carol Reed and Michael Powell leading the way in establishing British cinema as worthy of serious consideration. From then on there were as many troughs as there were triumphs, but the industry continues to produce the odd masterpiece to extend the great tradition. Spanning the period from 1929 to 2005, Great British Movies makes a fascinating read, a useful reference book and a must for all fans of British cinema.

Author : Paul Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1887664882

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Hitchcock Becomes Hitchcock by Paul Jensen Pdf

A look at the early British films of Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Tom Ryall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714536

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Blackmail by Tom Ryall Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929) was the first major British sound film. Tom Ryall examines its unusual production history, and places it in the context of Hitchcock's other British films of the period. Is is, Ryall argues, both a considerable work of art in itself, and also one of the first to display those touches we now think of as typically Hitchcockian: a blonde heroine in jeopardy, a surprise killing, some brilliantly manipulated suspense, and a last-reel chase around a familiar public landmark (in this case, the British Museum). There's also a cameo appearance by the director himself, as a harassed traveller on the London Underground.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786733078

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Hitchcock and the Spy Film by James Chapman Pdf

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest, Torn Curtain and his unmade film The Short Night. Chapman's close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political and cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s to the atom spies and double agents of the post-war world.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000103499

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A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey Pdf

The body of a woman, Christine Clay (née Christina Gotobed) is discovered at the edge of the surf on a beach in Kent... A Shilling for Candles is a 1936 mystery novel by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) about the investigation of the drowning of a film actress, known as Christine Clay. It is the second of Tey's five mysteries starring Inspector Alan Grant. The plot draws extensively on Tey's experience in working with actors in her play Richard of Bordeaux.

Author : Alain Kerzoncuf,Charles Barr
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Don Shiach
Publisher : Pocket Essentials
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1848398530

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Great British Movies by Don Shiach Pdf

Which British movies are the best that this country has produced? In this volume Don Shiach encapsulates the peaks of the British film achievement from the beginning of the sound era to the first decade of the 21st century. The giant figures of the 1930s, Alfred Hitchcock and Alexander Korda, set a standard for the domestic film industry in its attempt to challenge the domination of the Hollywood film. Many saw the 1940s as the Golden Age of British cinema with directors such as Carol Reed and Michael Powell leading the way in establishing British cinema as worthy of serious consideration. From then on there were as many troughs as there were triumphs, but the industry continues to produce the odd masterpiece to extend the great tradition. Covering The Third Man, Black Narcissus, Lawrence of Arabia, Carol Reed, Alfred Hitchcock, Ealing Comedy, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, British New Wave and much more, Great British Movies is a useful reference book, a celebration, and a starting point for the argument about what really does represent the best of British - a must for all fans of British cinema.

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780486148519

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Fifty Classic British Films, 1932-1982 by Anthony Slide Pdf

200 striking photographs, in-depth commentaries, plot synposes, contemporary reviews, and more — about 50 British classics from yesterday and today. Preface. Text. Alphabetical list of films. Bibliography.

Author : Nicholas Haeffner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Stephen Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137558879

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The British School Film by Stephen Glynn Pdf

Through close textual and contextual analysis of British films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of public (fee-paying) and state schooling; the values of special, single-sex and co-education; the role of male and female teachers; and the nature of childhood and adolescence itself. From the silents of Hitchcock to the sorcery of Harry Potter, British cinema’s continued explorations of school life highlights its importance in the nation’s everyday experience and imaginary landscape. Beyond this, the school film, varying in scope from low-budget exploitation to Hollywood-financed blockbusters, serves both as a prism through which one can trace major shifts in the British film industry and as a barometer of the social and cultural concerns of the cinema-going public. This applies especially for gender, race and, in all senses, class.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038091263

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All Our Yesterdays by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

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