First published in 1982, William Rothman’s
Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as they unfold, moment by moment, from first shot to last.
In addition to a thoughtful new preface and the original readings of
The Lodger (1927),
Murder! (1930),
The 39 Steps (1935),
Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and
Psycho (1960), this expanded edition includes a groundbreaking new chapter—now the book’s longest—on
Marnie (1964), Hitchcock’s most heartfelt yet most controversial film. Hitchcock never tired of quoting Oscar Wilde’s line, ‘And all men kill the thing they love.’ Dark moods therefore prevail in the five original chapters, culminating in the reading of
Psycho, but in demonstrating how
Marnie overcomes, or transcends, the murderous aspect of Hitchcock’s art, this new chapter balances the scales and gives an important new dimension to the book.
With exemplary precision,
Hitchcock, Second Edition shows how Hitchcock films express, cinematically, serious thoughts about such matters as the nature and relationships of love, murder, sexuality, marriage, and theater—and about their own medium. In so doing, it keeps faith with the idea that Hitchcock was a master, perhaps
the master, of what he called the ‘art of pure cinema.’ However, insofar as it investigates philosophically the
conditions of authorship in the medium of film, it is an auteurist study unlike any other. By attending to the films themselves and to the ways we experience them, rather than allowing some theory to dictate what to say about them, the book proves the fruitfulness of an approach that is open and responsive to the ways serious films are capable of teaching us how to think seriously about them.
Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as they unfold, moment by moment, from first shot to last.
In addition to a thoughtful new preface and the original readings of
The Lodger (1927),
Murder! (1930),
The 39 Steps (1935),
Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and
Psycho (1960), this expanded edition includes a groundbreaking new chapter—now the book’s longest—on
Marnie (1964), Hitchcock’s most heartfelt yet most controversial film. Hitchcock never tired of quoting Oscar Wilde’s line, ‘And all men kill the thing they love.’ Dark moods therefore prevail in the five original chapters, culminating in the reading of
Psycho, but in demonstrating how
Marnie overcomes, or transcends, the murderous aspect of Hitchcock’s art, this new chapter balances the scales and gives an important new dimension to the book.
With exemplary precision,
Hitchcock, Second Edition shows how Hitchcock films express, cinematically, serious thoughts about such matters as the nature and relationships of love, murder, sexuality, marriage, and theater—and about their own medium. In so doing, it keeps faith with the idea that Hitchcock was a master, perhaps
the master, of what he called the ‘art of pure cinema.’ However, insofar as it investigates philosophically the
conditions of authorship in the medium of film, it is an auteurist study unlike any other. By attending to the films themselves and to the ways we experience them, rather than allowing some theory to dictate what to say about them, the book proves the fruitfulness of an approach that is open and responsive to the ways serious films are capable of teaching us how to think seriously about them.
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विषयसूची
Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction to the Second Edition
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Murder!
The 39 Steps
Shadow of a Doubt
Psycho
Marnie
Postscript
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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William Rothman is Professor of Motion Pictures and Director of the Graduate Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Miami. His books includeCavell on Film and
Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross Mc Elwee, Jean Rouch, both also published by SUNY Press.
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