The Paradigm Case: The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9783034317801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str.

Bernard McCarron

Opis

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock's cinema - a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence - represents more than the spectre of a supposedly dead art form: it transcends its own filmic and institutional contexts, becoming an important audio-visual lexicon of desire, loss, mystery and suspense.
Through a detailed study of the Hitchcock-related work of artist-filmmakers Matthias Muller and Christoph Girardet, Johan Grimonprez, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon and Atom Egoyan, this book facilitates a dialogue between the creative appropriation of Hitchcock's films and the cinematic practices that increasingly inform the wider field of the contemporary visual arts. Each chapter is structured around a consideration of how the artwork in question has reconfigured or 'remade' key Hitchcockian expressive elements and motifs - in particular, the relationship between mise en scene and the mechanics of suspense, time, memory, history and death. In a career that extended across silent and sound eras as well as the British, European and Hollywood industries, Hitchcock's film oeuvre can be seen as a history of the cinema itself. As the work of these contemporary artist-filmmakers shows, it was also a history of the future, a paradigm case par excellence.

Spis treści

Contents: Mapping the Field of Hitchcockian Appropriation - Found Footage in Flames: Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet's Phoenix Tapes - The Essay-Film (Expanded): Johan Grimonprez's Double Take - Horror in Real-Time: Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho - Participatory Remaking: Pierre Huyghe's Remake - Screening Memory: Atom Egoyan's Evidence / Felicia's Journey.

O autorze

Bernard McCarron holds a PhD in Film Studies from Queen's University Belfast, where he is currently a lecturer. While he has written extensively on the international influence of expressionist film outside Germany, his main research interests include the afterlife of cinema and its legacy in the digital age.