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Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock
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Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and HitchcockLooking at the gothic in Victorian fiction, the development of cinema and Hitchcock's Vertigo , this book explores the contained or repressed desires of both characters and plots which defy direct representation, resulting in obsession, fetishism and displacement engendering a novel account of the way in which the gothic becomes internalized.
 
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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.

  • Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars
  • Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors' silent films to his last uncompleted last film
  • Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike
 
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Bluebeard's Legacy - Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock
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Bluebeard's Legacy - Death and Secrets from Bartok to HitchcockBluebeard's Legacy - Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock

The tale of the serial wife-murderer Bluebeard, his defiant, and surviving, final wife, a bloodied key and a secret chamber of horrors, has fascinated writers, composers, artists and film-makers throughout modern times. It is a unique story that dares to disclose and explore masculine violence: the homme fatal.


 
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The Death of Classical Cinema - Hitchcock, Lang, Minelli
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The Death of Classical Cinema - Hitchcock, Lang, MinelliThe Death of Classical Cinema - Hitchcock, Lang, Minelli

A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.


 
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and LightAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock became the most widely recognized director who ever lived. His films -- including The 39 Steps, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds -- set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling Elan. Since his death, Hitchcock has become crystallized in the public imagination as the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. But this remarkable biography draws on prodigious new research to restore Hitchcock the man -- the ingenious craftsman, the avid collaborator
 
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