Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Herausgegeben von Leitch, Thomas; Poague, Leland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship and contexts, influences, and collaborators.

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The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.
Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars
Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors' silent films to his last uncompleted last film
Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors (WBCF)
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1159g
• ISBN-13: 9781118797006
• ISBN-10: 1118797000
• Artikelnr.: 40054517

Autorenporträt

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he directs the Film Studies Program. Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague Part
I Background 9 1. Hitchcock's Lives 11 Thomas Leitch 2. Hitchcock's
Literary Sources 28 Ken Mogg 3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers 48 Charles
Barr 4. Hitchcock's Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time 67
Thomas Hemmeter Part II Genre 87 5. Hitchcock and Romance 89 Lesley Brill
6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama 109 Richard R. Ness 7. Conceptual
Suspense in Hitchcock's Films 126 Paula Marantz Cohen Part III
Collaboration 139 8. "Tell Me the Story So Far": Hitchcock and His Writers
141 Leland Poague 9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of
Hitchcock's Female Collaborators 162 Tania Modleski 10. A Surface
Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance 181 Susan White Part IV Style 199
11. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock 201 Brigitte Peucker 12. Hitchcock and
Music 219 Jack Sullivan 13. Some Hitchcockian Shots 237 Murray Pomerance
Part V Development 253 14. Hitchcock's Silent Cinema 255 Sidney Gottlieb
15. Gaumont Hitchcock 270 Tom Ryall 16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The
Selznick-Era Films 289 Ina Rae Hark 17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros.
309 David Sterritt 18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scène: 1954-60 329 Joe
McElhaney 19. The Universal Hitchcock 347 William Rothman Part VI Auteurism
365 20. French Hitchcock, 1945-55 367 James M. Vest 21. Lost in
Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview 387 Janet
Bergstrom 22. Robin Wood's Hitchcock 405 Harry Oldmeadow Part VII Ideology
425 23. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology 427
Toby Miller with Noel King 24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From
Rebecca to Marnie 452 Florence Jacobowitz 25. Queer Hitchcock 473 Alexander
Doty Part VIII Ethics 491 26. Hitchcock and Philosophy 493 Richard Gilmore
27. Hitchcock's Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of
the Object 508 Todd McGowan 28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette
Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock 529 George Toles Part IX
Beyond Hitchcock 553 29. Hitchcock and the Postmodern 555 Angelo Restivo
30. Hitchcock's Legacy 572 Richard Allen Index 592

Rezensionen

"In summation, A Companion to Hitchcock will be required reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in this director's films." (Cercles, 1 September 2014)

"Teachers and students alike will find much to keep themselves busy in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock." (Psychobabble200, 20 March 2014) "A great resource for students of Hitchcock's films, craft, thought, influences, and aesthetics. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice
"In my view this book is the most exciting work on Hitchcock and one which will become a prime source for Hitchcockian scholars." - Reference Reviews