| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
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The SUNY series, horizons of cinema |
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SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Contents |
Introduction / David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer -- From stage to page / Thomas Leitch -- Hitchcock and The three pleasure gardens / Sidney Gottlieb -- Hitchcock and The Manxman: a Victorian bestseller on the silent screen / Mary Hammond -- Blackmail: Charles Bennett and the decisive turn / Carles Barr -- The man who knew too much: Alfred Hitchcock, John Buchan and the thrill of the chase / Mark Glancy -- Secret agent: coming in from the cold, Maugham style / R. Barton Palmer -- The lady vanishes: but she won't go away / Noel King and Toby Miller -- The trouble with Rebecca / David Boyd -- Depth psychology on the surface: Hitchcock's Spellbound / Alan Woolfolk -- Unrecognizable origins: The song of the dragon and Notorious / Matthew H. Bernstein -- Morbid psychologies and so forth: The fine art of rope / David Sterritt -- Under a distemperate star: Under Capricorn (1949) / Constantine Verevis -- Bruno's game or the case of the sardonic psychopath / Douglas McFarland -- Alfred Hitchcock presents Dial m for murder: the submerged televisuality of a stage to big screen adaptation / Ina Rae Hark -- The author of this claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock and Rear window / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- To catch a thief: light reading on a dark topic / Hilary Radner -- Woman-as-death: Vertigo as source / Barbara Creed -- Psycho: trust the tale / Brian McFarlane -- Thirteen ways of looking at The birds / Murray Pomerance -- A brief anatomy of Family plot / Lesley Brill |
| Summary |
Featured in this book are 19 original essays, ranging across the entirety of Alfred Hitchcock's career, that consider the ways in which he adapted and transformed a variety of literary works - novels, plays, and short stories - into film |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 fast |
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Hitchcock, Alfred. idszbz |
| Subject |
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Film adaptations
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Film.
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Literatur.
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Verfilmung.
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Adaptation till film.
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Filmen och litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
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Boyd, David, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781461906322 |
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1461906326 |
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1438437501 |
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9781438437507 |
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