Hitchcock S Magic

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : M. V. Carey,Jack Hearne,Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0394936078

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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Magic Circle by M. V. Carey,Jack Hearne,Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Three young sleuths uncover a coven of witches when they search for the missing memoirs of a movie star.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0006919111

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Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Magic Circle by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. V. Carey,Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732685181

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The Mystery of the Magic Circle by M. V. Carey,Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Alfred Hitchcock,Stephen Marchesi
Publisher : Random House Trade
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Occult fiction
ISBN : 0394835921

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Alfred Hitchcock's Witch's Brew by Alfred Hitchcock,Stephen Marchesi Pdf

An anthology of eleven short stories about magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural.

Author : Dan Callahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197515327

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The Camera Lies by Dan Callahan Pdf

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actors Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "Actors are cattle," a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since. For Hitchcock, acting was a matter of contrast and counterpoint, valuing subtlety and understatement over flashiness. He felt that the camera was duplicitous, and directed actors to look and act conversely. In The Camera Lies, author Dan Callahan spotlights the many nuances of Hitchcock's direction throughout his career, from Cary Grant in Notorious (1946) to Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960). Delving further, he examines the ways that sex and sexuality are presented through Hitchcock's characters, reflecting the director's own complex relationship with sexuality. Detailing the fluidity of acting -- both what it means to act on film and how the process varies in each actor's career -- Callahan examines the spectrum of treatment and direction Hitchcock provided well- and lesser-known actors alike, including Ingrid Bergman, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Robert Walker, Jessica Tandy, Kim Novak, and Tippi Hedren. As Hitchcock believed, the best actor was one who could "do nothing well" - but behind an outward indifference to his players was a sophisticated acting theorist who often drew out great performances. The Camera Lies unpacks Hitchcock's legacy both as a director who continuously taught audiences to distrust appearance, and as a man with an uncanny insight into the human capacity for deceit and misinterpretation.

Author : L. Hass,F. Coppa,J. Peck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230617124

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Performing Magic on the Western Stage by L. Hass,F. Coppa,J. Peck Pdf

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Author : R. Barton Palmer,David Boyd
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438437507

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Hitchcock at the Source by R. Barton Palmer,David Boyd Pdf

The adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent years, but most studies of the subject have continued to privilege literature over film by taking the literary sources as their starting point. Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources have been transformed by one filmmaker into an impressive body of work. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock transformed a variety of literary sources—novels, plays, short stories—into what is arguably the most coherent and distinctive (narratively, stylistically, and thematically) of all directorial oeuvres. After an introduction surveying the nature and diversity of Hitchcock's sources and locating the current volume in the context of theoretical work on adaptation, nineteen original essays range across the entirety of Hitchcock's career, from the silent period through to the 1970s. In addition to addressing the process of adaptation in particular films in terms of plot and character, the contributors also consider less obvious matters of tone, technique, and ideology; Hitchcock's manipulation of the conventions of literary and dramatic genres such as spy fiction and romantic comedy; and more general problems, such as Hitchcock's shift from plays to novels as his major sources in the course of the 1930s.

Author : Douglas A. Cunningham
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780810881228

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The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo by Douglas A. Cunningham Pdf

This book is a collection of essays that examine the integrated relationship that the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo has with the history and culture of California and the San Francisco Bay area.

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438491899

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A Silence from Hitchcock by Murray Pomerance Pdf

In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director's work—its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating familiarity with the director's work, Pomerance shines light upon six films, some of them (Notorious, The Lady Vanishes, and The Trouble with Harry) frequently, even obsessively treated, and others (Frenzy, The Wrong Man, and Topaz) less often discussed. In its strange relation to speech, memory, urbanity, guilt, mortality, and espionage, silence becomes, in these films, a dramatic protagonist in its own right. Written by a master interpreter of Hitchcock, this book offers new ways of seeing, experiencing, and thinking about the films of one of cinema's greatest artists, as well as new ways of reflecting on our experience of cinema itself.

Author : Kazi Ashraf Uddin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783668018396

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Visual Uncanny. Freud's Screen Translation in Hitchcock by Kazi Ashraf Uddin Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, Jahangirnagar University, language: English, abstract: “Uncanny” as a recurrent gothic ingredient has been pervading the literary narratives for quite a long time since the period of The Castle of Otranto and Mysteries of Udolpho. The idea of the “return of the repressed” dominates the concept the “uncanny” which Sigmund Freud elaborated in his 1919 essay “The “Uncanny””. However, this unfamiliarity of the real is something which grounded the domain of suspense in the prose narratives and helped in rendering the text a creepy sentimentality. But it should be kept in mind that this feeling is nothing alien to our emotional praxis. Rather, it derives or finds its root from the mundaneness of our life. Maybe, such concern influenced Freud to theorize dream and propound the idea of “dream thought” and “dream content”. The concept of “uncanny” is related in many ways to the concept of “return”, be it a memory, an unhappy recollection or a traumatic revisitation. Such “return” definitely accounts for a psychological interpretation with probable reference to “hauntology” and unconscious. One thing has to be clarified at this point of our discussion about “uncanny, that is, this phenomenon should be distinguished from “magic realism” which rather problematizes the reality and our familiarity with the reality. But in the context of “uncanny”, the reality should be recognized as an expression of the unconscious. The translation of textual “uncanny” is something which deals with the visual physicality of the objects. The “uncanny” what we perceive through words is quite different from what is spelt out by means of visuals and sound. The elaboration of popular culture and the invention of cinema technologies have facilitated and innovated a new mode of presentation of the “uncanny”, that is film. Film as a new sign system can different modes of presentation to render the familiar unfamiliar ranging from shots, set-design, settings to sound cuts. As “uncanny” became the key supplement to gothic literature, so gothic films (generic term for horror movies) inculcate the depiction of the so-called unfamiliar (the unheimlich). Film plays, as Lesely Stern argues, with “indeterminacies: here/there, appearance/disappearance, life/death, past/future [...]” thus knocking our “imagination, our unconscious, to produce a sensory affect of dissonance at the very moment of identity.” The fluctuation between such indeterminacies is what renders the “uncanny” possible and helps question our own senses. [...]

Author : Jonathan Freedman,Richard H. Millington
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195119060

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Hitchcock's America by Jonathan Freedman,Richard H. Millington Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock has long been understood as an inspired technician and master of abnormal psychology. The authors of this volume suggest, through readings of his American films, that he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable presence.

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438484174

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Perpetual Movement by Neil Badmington Pdf

The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination of the film in which Neil Badmington analyzes each of Rope's eleven shots. Writing in an accessible and engaging style, Badmington explores the film's treatment of space, sound, editing, sexuality, source material, design, intertexuality, narrative, and music. He looks at Hitchcock's struggle with censorship while planning, shooting, and distributing the film. Perpetual Movement also addresses Rope's reception and legacy, explaining why the film's unusual qualities provide such lasting appeal for viewers.

Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691218137

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The Hitchcock Romance by Lesley Brill Pdf

Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock's self-assessment unquestioned, but this book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Lesley Brill discusses Hitchcock's work as a whole and examines in detail twenty-two films, from perennial favorites like North by Northwest to neglected masterpieces like Rich and Strange.