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Hitchcock, Second Edition - The Murderous Gaze (Paperback, Second Edition)
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Hitchcock, Second Edition - The Murderous Gaze (Paperback, Second Edition)
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
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First published in 1982, William Rothman s Hitchcock is a classic
work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is
philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over
nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its
critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as
they unfold, moment by moment, from first shot to last.
In addition to a thoughtful new preface and the original readings
of The Lodger (1927), Murder (1930), The 39 Steps (1935), Shadow of
a Doubt (1943), and Psycho (1960), this expanded edition includes a
groundbreaking new chapter now the book s longest on Marnie (1964),
Hitchcock s most heartfelt yet most controversial film. Hitchcock
never tired of quoting Oscar Wilde s line, And all men kill the
thing they love. Dark moods therefore prevail in the five original
chapters, culminating in the reading of Psycho, but in
demonstrating how Marnie overcomes, or transcends, the murderous
aspect of Hitchcock s art, this new chapter balances the scales and
gives an important new dimension to the book.
With exemplary precision, Hitchcock, Second Edition shows how
Hitchcock films express, cinematically, serious thoughts about such
matters as the nature and relationships of love, murder, sexuality,
marriage, and theater and about their own medium. In so doing, it
keeps faith with the idea that Hitchcock was a master, perhaps the
master, of what he called the art of pure cinema. However, insofar
as it investigates philosophically the conditions of authorship in
the medium of film, it is an auteurist study unlike any other. By
attending to the films themselves and to the ways we experience
them, rather than allowing some theory to dictate what to say about
them, the book proves the fruitfulness of an approach that is open
and responsive to the ways serious films are capable of teaching us
how to think seriously about them."
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Imprint: |
State University of New York Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
William Rothman
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
501 |
Edition: |
Second Edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4384-4316-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-4384-4316-1 |
Barcode: |
9781438443164 |
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