The Paradigm Case - The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts, 36
Release date:	September 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Bernard McCarron
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	318
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431780-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-431780-8
Barcode:	9783034317801

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