Alfred Hitchcock

ISBN-13: 9780582437388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 125 str.

Nicholas Haeffner

Opis

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films, navigating students through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock's prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resulted in 52 films of which Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) are now seen as classics within suspense, melodrama and horror genres.

Spis treści

1. Background  2. Hitchcock's heritage: class, culture and cosmopolitanism  3. Authorship and reputation  4. Fascinating design: image, nothingness, sound and silence  5. Realism and The Wrong Man  6. Hitchcock and women  7. Delirium of interpretation? The uses and abuses of psychoanalysis  8. Audiences and identification  9. Hitchcock's legacy: Psycho and after 

O autorze

Nicholas Haeffner