Hitchcock: Past and Future (2004) edited by Richard Allen & Sam Ishii-Gonzales
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| Richard Allen & Sam Ishii-Gonzales | |
| Routledge (2004) | |
| ISBN 0415275253 | |
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Synopsis
This new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers Hitchcock both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory. The contributions, who include leading scholars such as Slavoj Žižek, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, and James Naremore, discuss canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside lesser-known works including Juno and the Paycock and Frenzy. Articles are grouped into four thematic sections: 'Authorship and Aesthetics' examines Hitchcock as auteur and investigates central topics in Hitchcockian aesthetics. 'French Hitchcock' looks at Hitchcock's influence on filmmakers such as Chabrol, Truffaut and Rohmer, and how film critics such as Bazin and Deleuze have engaged with Hitchcock's work. 'Poetics and Politics of Identity' explores the representation of personal and political in Hitchcock's work. The final section, 'Death and Transfiguration' addresses the manner in which the spectacle and figuration of death haunts the narrative universe of Hitchcock's films, in particular his subversive masterpiece Psycho.
Contents
- Introduction — Richard Allen
- Part I — Authorship and Aesthetics (page 13)
- Hitch: A tale of two cities (London and Los Angeles) (page 15) — Peter Wollen
- Hitchcock and Humor (page 22) — James Naremore
- Doubles and Doubts in Hitchcock: the German connection (page 37) — Bettina Rosenbladt
- The Object and the Face: "Notorious", Bergman and the close-up (page 64) — Joseph McElhaney
- Unknown Hitchcock: the unrealized projects (page 85) — Sidney Gottlieb
- Part II — French Hitchcock (page 107)
- To Catch a Liar: Bazin, Chabrol and Truffaut encounter Hitchcock (page 109) — James M. Vest
- Hitchcock the First Forty-Four Films": Chabrol and Rohmer's "Politique des Auteurs" (page 119) — Walter Raubicheck
- Hitchcock with Deleuze (page 128) — Sam Ishii-Gonzales
- Part III — Poetics and Politics of Identity (page 147)
- Music and Identity: the struggle for harmony in "Veritgo" (page 149) — Daniel Antonio Srebnick
- The Silence of "The Birds": sound aesthetics and public space in later Hitchcock (page 164) — Angelo Restivo
- The Master, the Maniac, and "Frenzy": Hitchcock's legacy of horror (page 179) — Adam Lowenstein
- Hitchcock's Ireland: The Performance of Irish Identity in "Juno and the Paycock" and "Under Capricorn" (page 193) — James Morrison
- Hitchcock and hom(m)osexuality (page 211) — Patricia White
- Part IV — Death and Transfiguration (page 229)
- Death Drives (page 231) — Laura Mulvey
- Of "Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living": Hitchcock and Bentham (page 243) — Miran Božovič
- Is There a Proper Way to Remake a Hitchcock Film? (page 257) — Slavoj Žižek
- Index (page 275)
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