Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema

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Overview

Hitchcock and twentieth-century cinema looks at the work, influences, legacy and style of one of cinema's most famous directors. Alfred Hitchcock worked in Britain and America, in silent and sound films, and through and beyond the studio system, all the time appealing to mass audiences while employing his own distinctive style. This book examines how he produced films that challenged key notions of acting, sexuality, mise-en-scene and narrative convention. It contends that Hitchcock can be seen as a matrix-figure who absorbed much of the first decades of cinema and in turn greatly influenced film noir, the French New Wave, and directors as innovative as David Lynch, Roman Polanski and Wong Kar-Wai, and whose legacy is still evident in the work of contemporary filmmakers all around the world.
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Editorial Reviews

New Statesman - Christopher Bray
As thrilling as its subject, [Orr's] book deserves to be as influential, too.
New Statesman
As thrilling as its subject, [Orr's] book deserves to be as influential, too.

— Christopher Bray

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A lifetime's wisdom about moviemaking is evident in these pages... Essential.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781904764557
  • Publisher: Wallflower Press
  • Publication date: 3/10/2006
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

John Orr is professor emeritus in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Cinema and Modernity, Contemporary Cinema, and The Art and Politics of Film, and coeditor of The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda and The Cinema of Roman Polanski.

Wallflower Press

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Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Hitch as matrix-figure : Hitchcock and twentieth-century cinema 1
Ch. 2 Lost identities : Hitchcock and David Hume 26
Ch. 3 Expressive moments : Hitchcock and Weimar cinema 53
Ch. 4 The flight and the gaze : Hitchcock and the British connection 80
Ch. 5 Hitchcock's actors : Notorious, Valli and the Triptych effect 108
Ch. 6 Perverse miracles : Hitchcock and the French new wave 130
Ch. 7 Inside out : Hitchcock, film noir and David Lynch 152
Coda : I confess, or I'm giving nothing away 176
Conclusion : Hitch in the twenty-first century 185
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