Alfred Hitchcocks America

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665128
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's America written by Murray Pomerance and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's work. Alfred Hitchcock's America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock's method and works. The American "spirit of place," is seen here in light of the titanic American personality, American values in a consumer age, social class and American social form, and the characteristic American marriage. The book’s analysis ranges across a wide array of films from Rebecca to Family Plot, and examines in depth the location sequences, characterological types, and complex social expectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrived there.

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353315
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock's America written by Jonathan Freedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies, the normative assumptions and the cultural alternatives, that shaped these tumultuous decades. They argue that, just as these films occupy a visual landscape defined by the grand monuments of American civic life--Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations--they are also marked by their preoccupation with the social mores and private practices of mid-century America. Not only are big-city and suburban life the explicit subjects of films like Rear Window and Shadow of a Doubt, so are the forms of experience that emerge within these social spaces, whether the urban voyeurism examined by the former or the intertwining of banality and violence depicted in the latter. Indeed, just about every form of American life that was achieving social power at this time--the national security state; the science and art of psychoanalysis; the privileging of the free-wheeling, improvisatory self; the postwar codification and fissuring of gender roles; road-culture and its ancillary creation, the motel--is given detailed, critical, and mordant examination in Hitchcocks films. The Hitchcock who emerges is not merely the inspired technician and psychological excavator that critics of the past two generations have justly hailed; he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable prescience.

Author : Thomson David Thomson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145875796X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moment of Psycho written by Thomson David Thomson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.

Author : Pam Pollack
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698187369
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was Alfred Hitchcock? written by Pam Pollack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s unique vision in movies like Psycho and The Birds sent shivers down our spines and shockwaves through the film industry. His innovative camera techniques have been studied for decades and his gift for storytelling cemented his place in history. Many directors make great movies, but the genius of Hitchcock helped make movies great. Learn how a chubby boy from London became the “Master of Suspense.”

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520212223
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitchcock on Hitchcock written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-11-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchcock writings about himself and his films

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665128
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's America written by Murray Pomerance and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's work. Alfred Hitchcock's America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock's method and works. The American "spirit of place," is seen here in light of the titanic American personality, American values in a consumer age, social class and American social form, and the characteristic American marriage. The book’s analysis ranges across a wide array of films from Rebecca to Family Plot, and examines in depth the location sequences, characterological types, and complex social expectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrived there.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Pan Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by Pan Books (UK). This book was released on 1974 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murray Pomerance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485263
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage with Hitchcock written by Murray Pomerance and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock's work gives extensive meditations on six films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion. Murray Pomerance's sources come from a wide territory of interest, including production study, philosophy, cultural history, and more. The book is written as an homage to, and in many ways address to, not only the story content of these films but, more importantly, their overall filmic texture, which involves compositions, visual nuances, sounds, rhythms, and Hitchcock's unique treatments of human experience. The voyage theme plays a key—and moving—role in all the films discussed here.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Amereon Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780848819859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock Presents written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by Amereon Limited. This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002409
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense written by Edward White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Biography An Economist Best Book of 2021 A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book’s twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock’s life and work: “The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up”; “The Murderer”; “The Auteur”; “The Womanizer”; “The Fat Man”; “The Dandy”; “The Family Man”; “The Voyeur”; “The Entertainer”; “The Pioneer”; “The Londoner”; “The Man of God.” Each of these angles reveals something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived but also the various versions of himself that he projected, and those projected on his behalf. From Hitchcock’s early work in England to his most celebrated films, White astutely analyzes Hitchcock’s oeuvre and provides new interpretations. He also delves into Hitchcock’s ideas about gender; his complicated relationships with “his women”—not only Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren but also his female audiences—as well as leading men such as Cary Grant, and writes movingly of Hitchcock’s devotion to his wife and lifelong companion, Alma, who made vital contributions to numerous classic Hitchcock films, and burnished his mythology. And White is trenchant in his assessment of the Hitchcock persona, so carefully created that Hitchcock became not only a figurehead for his own industry but nothing less than a cultural icon. Ultimately, White’s portrayal illuminates a vital truth: Hitchcock was more than a Hollywood titan; he was the definitive modern artist, and his significance reaches far beyond the confines of cinema.