Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Author: John Belton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521564533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a fresh examination of Rear Window from a variety of perspectives.
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Hitchcock's Rear Window
Author: John Fawell
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2004-11-22
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 080932606X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women. Although Rear Window masquerades quite successfully as a piece of light entertainment, Fawell demonstrates just how complex the film really is. It is a film in which Hitchcock, the consummate virtuoso, was in full command of his technique. One of Hitchcock’s favorite films, Rear Window offered the ideal venue for the great director to fully use the tricks and ideas he acquired over his previous three decades of filmmaking. Yet technique alone did not make this classic film great; one of Hitchcock’s most personal films, Rear Window is characterized by great depth of feeling. It offers glimpses of a sensibility at odds with the image Hitchcock created for himself—that of the grand ghoul of cinema who mocks his audience with a slick and sadistic style. Though Hitchcock is often labeled a misanthrope and misogynist, Fawell finds evidence in Rear Window of a sympathy for the loneliness that leads to voyeurism and crime, as well as an empathy for the film’s women. Fawell emphasizesa more feeling, humane spirit than either Hitchcock’s critics have granted him or Hitchcock himself admitted to, and does so in a manner of interest to film scholars and general readers alike.
The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780140269772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding the complete novels "I Married a Dead Man" and "Waltz into Darkness" plus "Rear Window" and four other short stories, "The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus" provides a thrilling collection of classic works from the quintessential master of noir fiction.
The Wrong House
Author: Steven Jacobs
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 906450637X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book.
Alfred Hitchcock
Author: Patrick Mcgilligan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2004-09-14
Total Pages: 900
ISBN-13: 9780060988272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 Élan. 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, the constant trickster, provocateur, and romantic. Like Hitchcock's best films, Patrick McGilligan's life of Hitchcock is a drama full of revelation, graced by a central love story, dark humor, and cliff-hanging suspense: a definitive portrait of the most creative, and least understood, figure in film history.
It's Only a Movie
Author: Charlotte Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-12-09
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1847397093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIT'S ONLY A MOVIE is as close to an autobiography by Alfred Hitchcock that you could ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with her subject, his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.
A Hitchcock Reader
Author: Marshall Deutelbaum
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1405155566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be used as a critical text in introductory or advanced film courses, while also satisfying Hitchcock scholars by representing the rich variety of critical responses to the director's films over the years. a total of 20 of Hitchcock's films are discussed in depth - many others are considered in passing section introductions by the editors that contextualize the essays and the films they discuss well-researched bibliographic references, which will allow readers to broaden the scope of their study of Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's Rereleased Films
Author: Walter Raubicheck
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780814323267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatures essays from some fifteen authors written about Hitchcock and five of his most significant films: Rear window, Vertigo, The man who knew too much, Rope, and The trouble with Harry.
Writing with Hitchcock
Author: Steven DeRosa
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780571199907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn entertaining, in-depth look at the films, including Rear Window, made by Alfred Hitchcock with screenwriter John Michael Hayes. In spring 1953, the great director Alfred Hitchcock decided to take a chance and work with a young writer, John Michael Hayes. The decision turned out to be a pivotal one, for the four films that Hitchcock made with Hayes over the next several years -- Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much -- represented an extraordinarily successful change of style. Each of the movies was distinguished by a combination of glamorous stars, sophisticated dialogue, and inventive plots -- James Stewart and Grace Kelly trading barbs in the tensely plotted Rear Window, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly engaging in witty repartee in To Catch a Thief -- and resulted in some of Hitchcock's most distinctive and intimate work, based in large part on Hayes's exceptional scripts. Exploring for the first time the details of this collaboration, Steven DeRosa follows Hitchcock and Hayes through each film from initial discussions to completed picture and presents an analysis of each screenplay. He also reveals the personal story -- filled with inspiration and humor, jealousy and frustration -- of the initial synergy between the two very different men before their relationship fell apart. Writing with Hitchcock not only provides new insight into four films from a master but also sheds light on the process through which classic motion pictures are created.
Hitchcock at the Source
Author: R. Barton Palmer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1438437501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe adaptation of literary works to the screen has been the subject of increasing, and increasingly sophisticated, critical and scholarly attention in recent years, but most studies of the subject have continued to privilege literature over film by taking the literary sources as their starting point. Rather than examining the processes by which a particular author has been adapted into a diversity of films by different filmmakers, the contributors in Hitchcock at the Source consider the processes by which a varied range of literary sources have been transformed by one filmmaker into an impressive body of work. Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock transformed a variety of literary sources—novels, plays, short stories—into what is arguably the most coherent and distinctive (narratively, stylistically, and thematically) of all directorial oeuvres. After an introduction surveying the nature and diversity of Hitchcock's sources and locating the current volume in the context of theoretical work on adaptation, nineteen original essays range across the entirety of Hitchcock's career, from the silent period through to the 1970s. In addition to addressing the process of adaptation in particular films in terms of plot and character, the contributors also consider less obvious matters of tone, technique, and ideology; Hitchcock's manipulation of the conventions of literary and dramatic genres such as spy fiction and romantic comedy; and more general problems, such as Hitchcock's shift from plays to novels as his major sources in the course of the 1930s.
