A Hitchcock Reader grew out of the editors' desire for a comprehensive and critical text in courses devoted to the director's films. This updated edition should also satisfy general readers and scholars by providing a range of thought-provoking essays that reflect the history of film criticism and theory over the past thirty years.
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This is a compilation of essays, most of which have been previously published, which the editors feel could be useful in a film course. Most examine a single film; a few cover general themes. Some of the essays appear to take Hitchcock interpretation to extreme limits. Others are more accessible, but they will be most valuable to those who have seen the films, preferably more than once. Much of this ground has been tilled before, notably in Raymond Durgnat's Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974) and William Rothman's Hitchcock: the murderous gaze (LJ 6/1/82). Nevertheless, this sometimes provocative work is recommended for cinema collections. Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"The rewritten introductions to each section update scholarship on Hitchcock, engaging the reader in current debates among Hitchcock scholars and fans." (CHOICE, 2009)"The detail is extraordinary and the insights remarkable and the director? He would have been flattered, but still retorted "Oh it's only a movie!"" (M/C Reviews, May 2009)
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Robin Wood began his landmark study, Hitchcok's Films, with a crucial question: "Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blocage symbolique, semidocumentary style, murderous gaze, pertinent codes, classical narrative cinema, concert sequence, scopic drive, subjective shots, bird attack, lap dissolves, classical films, film criticism, depicted world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Sir John, Alfred Hitchcock, Miss Froy, Uncle Charlie, The Wrong Man, The Lady Vanishes, Cary Grant, Robin Wood, Wide Angle, Film Quarterly, James Stewart, The Murderous Gaze, The Pleasure Garden, William Rothman, Bodega Bay, Film Comment, Mount Rushmore, Norman Bates, Marion Crane, Raymond Bellour, Santa Rosa, Bernard Herrmann, Camera Obscura, Handell Fane New!
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Robin Wood began his landmark study, Hitchcok's Films, with a crucial question: "Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Sir John, Alfred Hitchcock, Miss Froy, Uncle Charlie, The Wrong Man, The Lady Vanishes, Cary Grant, Robin Wood, Wide Angle, Film Quarterly, James Stewart, The Murderous Gaze, The Pleasure Garden, William Rothman, Bodega Bay, Film Comment, Mount Rushmore, Norman Bates, Marion Crane, Raymond Bellour, Santa Rosa, Bernard Herrmann, Camera Obscura, Handell Fane New!
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- The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock on 10 pages
- Strange Case Of Alfred Hitchcock: or The Plain Man's Hitchcock by Raymond Durgnat on 7 pages
- The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition by Stanley Cavell on 5 pages
- Film Criticism: A Counter Theory by William Cadbury on 5 pages
- Stage Fright (Usborne Young Reading: Series Two) by Phillip Stuart on 4 pages
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- Hitchcock's America by Jonathan Freedman on 5 pages
- Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film by Associate Professor John Fawell PhD on 5 pages
- The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Cambridge Film Classics) by David Sterritt on 4 pages
- The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modlesk on 4 pages
- The Hitchcock Romance by Lesley Brill on 4 pages
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