Hitchcock S Cryptonymies Secret Agents

Author : Tom Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816642052

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Hitchcock's Cryptonymies: Secret agents by Tom Cohen Pdf

Tom Cohen's radical exploration of Hitchcock's cinema departs from conventional approaches--psychoanalytic, feminist, political--to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings inscribed on and around his films. Aligning Hitchcock's agenda with the philosophical and aesthetic writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Benjamin, Cohen's project dramatically recasts the history and meaning of cinema itself. This first volume of "Hitchcock's Cryptonymies provides a singularly close reading of films such as "The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound, and "North by Northwest, exposing the often imperceptible visual and aural puns, graphic elements, and cryptograms that traverse his entire body of work. Within Hitchcock's cinema, Cohen argues, these "secret agents" have more than just decorative or symbolic significance; they also reflect, critique, and disrupt traditional cinematic practice, undermining ways of seeing inherited from the Enlightenment and prefiguring postmodern culture. Cohen offers an unprecedented guide to the entirety of Hitchcock's labyrinthine signature system.

Author : Tom Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816641706

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Hitchcock's Cryptonymies: War machines by Tom Cohen Pdf

This second volume presents the director's work as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of this - and cinema's place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as the cinema's revolutionary impact on perception and memory.

Author : Tom Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816641710

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Hitchcock's Cryptonymies by Tom Cohen Pdf

This second volume presents the director's work as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of this - and cinema's place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as the cinema's revolutionary impact on perception and memory.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Ben Winters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135022556

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Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film by Ben Winters Pdf

This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a variety of aesthetic approaches and traditions is no mere copy of everyday reality, but constitutes its own filmic reality, and that the music heard in a film's underscore plays an important role in distinguishing film reality from the everyday. As a result, concert scenes are examined as sites for provocative interactions between these two realities, in which real-world musicians appear in fictional narratives, and an audience’s suspension of disbelief is problematised. In blurring the musical experiences of onscreen observers and participants, these concert scenes also allegorize music’s role in creating a shared subjectivity between film audience and character, and prompt Winters to propose a radically new vision of music’s role in narrative cinema wherein musical underscore becomes part of a shared audio-visual space that may be just as accessible to the characters as the music they encounter in scenes of concert performance.

Author : Gary McCarron
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839988479

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Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Gary McCarron Pdf

This book is neither biography nor a conventional film critique. Rather, the text explores aspects of Hitchcock’s work in relation to theories drawn from the social sciences and philosophy. The various chapters focus not on specific films, but on broader ideas central to Hitchcock’s work. There is, for instance, a chapter on his idea of the MacGuffin in which I use Ernesto Laclau’s theories of equivalent substitution to explain how the MacGuffin functions in Hitchcock’s works. There is also a chapter on his notion of ‘pure cinema’ which moves from the idea of purity as an anthropological concept to consider purity in relation to current debates regarding so-called hybrid media, and Hitchcock’s relevance to these issues in respect of his dissatisfaction with the advent of sound to the cinema world. Broadly speaking, the book uses Hitchcock’s films to illustrate ideas in the social sciences and philosophy and uses those same ideas to illustrate aspects of Hitchcock’s films.

Author : Debra Diane Davis,Diane Davis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252034503

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Reading Ronell by Debra Diane Davis,Diane Davis Pdf

A scintillating exploration of the responsibility of reading in Avital Ronell's work

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350113305

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Eastern Approaches to Western Film by Stephen Teo Pdf

Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the critical studies of Western films by reappraising selected films of these masters, matching and comparing their visions, themes, and ideas with the philosophical and paradigmatic principles of the East. It traces Eastern inscriptions and signs embedded within these films as well as their social lifestyle values and other concepts that are also inherently Eastern. As such, the book represents an effort to reformulate established discourses on Western cinema that are overwhelmingly Eurocentric. Although it seeks to inject an alternative perspective, the ultimate aim is to reach a balance of East and West. By focusing on Eastern aesthetic and philosophical influences in Western films, the book suggests that there is a much more thorough integration of East and West than previously thought or imagined.

Author : Marshall Deutelbaum,Leland Poague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Susan M. Griffin,Alan Nadel
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199764426

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The Men Who Knew Too Much by Susan M. Griffin,Alan Nadel Pdf

The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James.

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780708323717

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Hitchcock's Magic by Neil Badmington Pdf

Why are we still drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What remains to see? What could there possibly be left to say about tales that are overwhelmingly familiar? Why, moreover, have many of Hitchcock's films entered the popular imagination and enjoyed an eventful life far from the screen? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions about the influence and ongoing appeal of Hitchcock's work by focussing upon the fabric of the films themselves, upon the way in which they enlist and sustain our desire, holding our attention by constantly withholding something from us. We keep watching, keep revisiting the stories, because there is always something left to see and know. The book combines detailed textual analysis of a number of Hitchcock's most famous films - Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Birds - with more general discussion of the director's complete body of work. Drawing upon the poststructuralist theories of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, it takes issue with the biographical and psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated studies of Hitchcock's films to argue instead for the significance of textuality. Hitchcock's Magic is an innovative, lively, and readable book which challenges critical orthodoxy and breaks new ground in the field.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Spy stories
ISBN : OCLC:503909723

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Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Manuel Asensi,Carl Good
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823255429

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Material Spirit by Manuel Asensi,Carl Good Pdf

The essays in this collection examine philosophical, religious, and literary or artistic texts using methodologies and insights that have grown out of reflection on literature and art. In them, them phrase “material spirit” becomes a point of departure for considering the continuing spectral effects of religious texts and concerns in ways that do not simply call for, or assume, new orrenewed forms of religiosity. The writers in this collection seek to examine religion beyond traditional notions of transcendence: Their topics range from early Christian religious practices to global climate change. Some of the essays explore religious themes or tones in literary texts, for example, works by Wordsworth, Hopkins, Proust, Woolf, and Teresa of Avila. Others approach—in a literarycritical mood—philosophical or para-philosophical writers such as Bataille, Husserl, Derrida, and Benjamin. Still others treat writers of a more explicitly religious orientation, such as Augustine, Rosenzweig, or Bernard of Clairvaux.

Author : Joshua David Gonsalves
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782797708

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Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant by Joshua David Gonsalves Pdf

Who will Cary Grant have been when the future runs out? In the atrocity-rich wake of Hiroshima, Cold War America is enriched beyond belief. Hollywood radiates, in turn, images of a consumer utopia criss-crossed by segregation, social mobility, racial passing, anxieties about ethnicity and “white panic”. Cary Grant’s class-less classiness seems to denote this (sub)urban leisure class without an effort, yet he signifies more than this: ambivalent, bi-sex’d, inter-sected by the biopolitics of racialization, the policing of sexual agency and stereotypical ethnic identifications (including the invisible Anglo instanced by the high-angle shot). If biopolitics signifies the individuated control of populations, Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant: Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in Amerika locates this anxious racialization of service persons, interracial sexuality and social mobility (passing) in an Americanized simulacrum of the Mediterranean world in To Catch a Thief (1955) and in a New York/Northeast-centered USA in North by Northwest (1959). Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant queries the criticism of Alfred J. Hitchcock’s films so as to historically situate one of the first free agents in Hollywood. Yet this semblance of freedom pays a price in meat, murder, massification and the organized homicide of Cold War geopolitics. The book explicates, in sum, the ethnic, racial and sexual ambiguity of Cary Grant’s star persona as both an inculcation of (and resistance to) biopolitical imperatives in fifties-era “America”.

Author : S. Tumino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230117020

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Cultural Theory After the Contemporary by S. Tumino Pdf

Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.