Hitchcock In Hollywood
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Author : Joel Waldo Finler
language : en
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Release Date : 1992
Alfred Hitchcock written by Joel Waldo Finler and has been published by B. T. Batsford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
This biography assesses Hitchcock's American career, from his arrival in Hollywood in 1939 right up to his last film in the 1970s. These years cover Hitchcock's most accomplished period of film-making when he thoroughly established his reputation as a master of suspense. As well as providing a detailed examination of the films themselves, this book takes a close look at the director's working methods - his relations with producers and production companies, favoured stars, writers and other collaborators - and highlights Hitchcock's involvement in virtually every aspect of each production, from the script and design to editing and scoring. The book is illustrated with production shots and film stills.
Hitchcock In Hollywood
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Author : Joel Waldo Finler
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1992
Hitchcock In Hollywood written by Joel Waldo Finler and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Motion picture producers and directors categories.
"There have been many homages to the Master. But it has been almost a decade since the most recent spate of books, and Hitchcock in Hollywood admirably fills a new need." "In this new and original assessment of Hitchcock's American career from his arrival in Hollywood in 1939 up to his last films in the 1970s, Joel Finler shows how Hitchcock succeeded in quickly fitting into the American studio system with its emphasis on stars, technical expertise, and success at the box office to become one of the most influential directors of all time. These years cover Hitchcock's most accomplished period of filmmaking and the author uncovers many links with the best of Hitchcock's earlier British films from the 1930s." "Hitchcock used the thriller as a means of probing deep into our fears and neuroses. His films work on many levels: his mastery of the cinematic medium is demonstrated not only through the movies, plot lines, characters, and relationships within his films, but also in his use of the camera, editing, color, and widescreen techniques." "As well as the films themselves, Joel Finler discusses the director's working methods - his relations with producers and production companies, Hollywood stars, writers, and other collaborators - with reference to budgets, boxoffice receipts, and Hitchcock's involvement in virtually every aspect of each production from script and design to editing and scoring." "A detailed filmography with plot synopses completes the text, which is illustrated throughout with production shots and film stills."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock
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Author : Herbert Coleman
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2007-02-08
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock written by Herbert Coleman and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-08 with Performing Arts categories.
As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of commercial and critical successes with one of the greats of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock. In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler. Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director's long running television series. Not only an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the master of suspense. Illustrated with photos. Published in hardcover as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)
Alfred Hitchcock
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Author : Nicholas Haeffner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Alfred Hitchcock written by Nicholas Haeffner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock's prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resulted in 53 films of which Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) are now seen as classics within the suspense, melodrama and horror genres. In contrast to previous works, which have attempted to get inside Hitchcock's mind and psychoanalyse his films, this book takes a more materialist stance. As Haeffner makes clear, Hitchcock was simultaneously a professional film maker working as part of a team in the film factories of Hollywood, a media celebrity, and an aspiring artist gifted with considerable entrepreneurial flair for marketing himself and his films. The book makes a case for locating the director's remarkable body of work within traditions of highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture, appealing to different audience constituencies in a calculated strategy. The book upholds the case for taking Hitchcock's work seriously and challenges his popular reputation as a misogynist through detailed analyses of his most controversial films.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Author : Paula Marantz Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Alfred Hitchcock written by Paula Marantz Cohen and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Performing Arts categories.
This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Marantz Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films—Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho—as well as some of his more uneven ones—Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz—and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society. Drawing on a number of methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorian-style gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film. Cohen posits that Hitchcock's films are, in part, a masculine response to the domestic, psychological novels that had appealed primarily to women during the Victorian era. His career, she argues, can be seen as an attempt to balance "the two faces of Victorianism": the masculine legacy of law and hierarchy and the feminine legacy of feeling and imagination. Cohen asserts that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends. She charts his development from his British period through his classic Hollywood years into his later phase, tracing a conceptual evolution that corresponds to an evolution in cultural identity—one that builds on a Victorian inheritance and ultimately discards it.
Hitchcock S Stars
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Author : Lesley L Coffin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-06-14
Hitchcock S Stars written by Lesley L Coffin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Although he was a visual stylist who once referred to actors as cattle, Alfred Hitchcock also had a remarkable talent for innovative and creative casting choices. The director launched the careers of several actors and completely changed the trajectory of others, many of whom created some of the most iconic screen performances in history. However, Hitchcock’s ability to fit his leading men and women into just the right parts has been a largely overlooked aspect of his filmmaking skills. In Hitchcock’s Stars: Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio System, Lesley L. Coffin looks at how the director made the most of the actors who were at his disposal for several decades. From his first American production in 1940 to his final feature in 1976, Hitchcock’s films were examples of creative casting that strayed far from the norm during the structured Hollywood star system. Rather than examining the cinematic aspects of his work, this book explores the collaboration the director engaged in with some of the most
Hitchcock And Selznick
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Author : Leonard J. Leff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-03-02
Hitchcock And Selznick written by Leonard J. Leff and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Paperback reprint of a book depicting the oddly brilliant relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick, two of Hollywood's most legendary filmmakers.
The Master Of Suspense
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-20
The Master Of Suspense written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with categories.
*Includes pictures. *Includes Hitchcock's quotes about directing and explains the key themes and techniques associated with his films. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach." - Alfred Hitchcock, 1956 In the opening pages of his seminal book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock's Films (1965), Robin Wood famously asked, "Why Should We Take Hitchcock Seriously?" Wood then proceeded to offer a detailed examination of Hitchcock's career to that point, arguing that the Master of Suspense belonged among the ranks of the preeminent directors in Hollywood, and that his films were among the most important in American culture. When Wood was asking that question, he wasn't asking it rhetorically and was arguing for Hitchcock's relevance, which seems strange today because Hitchcock is now a Hollywood icon. No one would even think of asking that same question today, as just about every American is familiar with Hitchcock's work in some way or another. Hitchcock is regarded as perhaps the most famous and influential director in history, so Wood's question back in 1965 at least demonstrates the evolution of Hitchcock's reputation and the critical reception of his career. Indeed, as revered as Hitchcock is today, it is telling that he was never awarded an Academy Award during his career (though he was given an honorary Oscar after his retirement.) Vertigo (1958), for example, is now considered one of the landmark films of the classical Hollywood cinema, but it was both a box office and a critical flop upon its release. Other Hitchcock films, such as Psycho (1960) and North by Northwest (1959), performed well at the box office but were not viewed as high art. Indeed, it was not until the rise of Film Studies as an academic discipline - a development that saw Hitchcock's films get co-opted by scholars of the horror and suspense genres, feminist film theorists, and film historians - that Hitchcock's reputation as a significant artist and director crystallized. Thus, not only did Hitchcock's career itself undergo dramatic fluctuations, his reception has been every bit as circuitous in its trajectory. The Master of Suspense: The Life and Legacy of Alfred Hitchcock examines the career of Alfred Hitchcock, as well as his personal life and family background. Though they are often forgotten today, this biography looks at the British films that gave him an international reputation and facilitated his move to Hollywood. In addition to looking at his filmography, this biography also looks at the great deal of myths, uncertainty, and sensationalism surrounding his upbringing, and how Hitchcock's family and cultural background and how it shaped his career. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Master of Suspense like never before, in no time at all.
Hitchcock S America
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Author : Jonathan Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-25
Hitchcock S America written by Jonathan Freedman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-25 with Social Science categories.
Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies, the normative assumptions and the cultural alternatives, that shaped these tumultuous decades. They argue that, just as these films occupy a visual landscape defined by the grand monuments of American civic life--Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations--they are also marked by their preoccupation with the social mores and private practices of mid-century America. Not only are big-city and suburban life the explicit subjects of films like Rear Window and Shadow of a Doubt, so are the forms of experience that emerge within these social spaces, whether the urban voyeurism examined by the former or the intertwining of banality and violence depicted in the latter. Indeed, just about every form of American life that was achieving social power at this time--the national security state; the science and art of psychoanalysis; the privileging of the free-wheeling, improvisatory self; the postwar codification and fissuring of gender roles; road-culture and its ancillary creation, the motel--is given detailed, critical, and mordant examination in Hitchcocks films. The Hitchcock who emerges is not merely the inspired technician and psychological excavator that critics of the past two generations have justly hailed; he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable prescience.
Hitchcock At Work
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Author : Bill Krohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-03-16
Hitchcock At Work written by Bill Krohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at Hitchcock's work examines his entire career--from the early films he made in the UK in the 1920s to his Hollywood productions. Going beyond the usual anecdotes, Krohn taps the director's personal papers and film studio archives to craft this rare portrait. 85 color, 200 bandw photos, line drawings.