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Author Badmington, Neil

Title Hitchcock's Magic
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Hitchcock's Magic; or, How I Starred 1in Saboteur; Ps/zycho; Frame Tale: Rear Window and the Promise of Vision; SpectRebecca; Stories of 'O': North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much; The Animals Who Knew Too Much: The Zoopoetics of The Birds; Postscript: Into the Mystery; Appendix: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Why are we drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared? What is the source of Hitchcock's magic? This book answers these questions by focussing upon the films themselves, upon how they hold our attention by constantly withholding something from us. Combining close analysis of a number of Hitchcock's most famous films with more general discussion his work, the volume takes issue with the biographical and psychoanalytic approaches that have dominated studies of Hitchcock's films to argue instead for the significance of textuality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
Filmography: pages 149-151
Notes English
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Subject Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Appreciation
SUBJECT Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 fast
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Critique et interprétation. ram
Subject Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
Art appreciation
Regissörer.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780708323717
0708323715
1299200958
9781299200951
9781783164516
1783164514