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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812507303321

Titolo

A companion to Alfred Hitchcock / / edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-78268-317-8

1-4443-3198-1

1-283-40862-7

1-4443-9732-X

1-4443-9730-3

9786613408624

1-4443-9731-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (599 p.)

Collana

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Classificazione

PER004030

Disciplina

791.43/0233/092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Background -- pt. II Genre -- pt. III. Collaboration -- pt. IV. Style -- pt. V. Development -- pt. VI. Auteurism -- pt. VII. Ideology -- pt. VIII. Ethics -- pt. IX. Beyond Hitchcock.

Sommario/riassunto

"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influences, and collaborators, on the other. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock authoritatively maps the body of work generated in response to the director and his films, compiling essays from some of the world's most noted scholars in the emerging field of Hitchcock studies"--