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The Art of Pure Cinema - Hitchcock and His Imitators (Paperback)
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The Art of Pure Cinema - Hitchcock and His Imitators (Paperback)
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In a now-famous interview with Francois Truffaut in 1962, Alfred
Hitchcock described his masterpiece Rear Window (1954) as "the
purest expression of a cinematic idea." But what, precisely, did
Hitchcock mean by pure cinema? Was pure cinema a function of mise
en scene, or composition within the frame? Was it a function of
montage, "of pieces of film assembled"? This notion of pure cinema
has intrigued and perplexed critics, theorists, and filmmakers
alike in the decades following this discussion. And even across his
40-year career, Hitchcock's own ideas about pure cinema remained
mired in a lack of detail, clarity, and analytical precision. The
Art of Pure Cinema is the first book-length study to examine the
historical foundations and stylistic mechanics of pure cinema.
Author Bruce Isaacs explores the potential of a philosophical and
artistic approach most explicitly demonstrated by Hitchcock in his
later films, beginning with Hitchcock's contact with the European
avant-garde film movement in the mid-1920s. Tracing the evolution
of a philosophy of pure cinema across Hitchcock's most experimental
works - Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The
Birds, Marnie, and Frenzy - Isaacs rereads these works in a new and
vital context. In addition to this historical account, the book
presents the first examination of pure cinema as an integrated
stylistics of mise en scene, montage, and sound design. The films
of so-called Hitchcockian imitators like Mario Bava, Dario Argento,
and Brian De Palma are also examined in light of a provocative
claim: that the art of pure cinema is only fully realized after
Hitchcock.
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