Hitchcock at the source [[electronic resource] ] : the auteur as adaptor / / edited by R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/60019
• Soggetto topico: Film adaptations - History and criticism
• Altri autori: PalmerR. Barton <1946-> BoydDavid <1944->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Recontextualizing Hitchcock's Authorship -- 1. Hitchcock from Stage to Page -- 2. Hitchcock and theThree Pleasure Gardens -- 3. Hitchcock and The ManxmanA Victorian Bestseller on the Silent Screen -- 4. BlackmailCharles Bennett and the Decisive Turn -- 5. The Man Who KnewToo Much (1934): Alfred Hitchcock, John Buchan, and the Thrill of the Chase -- 6. Secret Agent: Coming in from the Cold, Maugham Style -- 7. The Lady Vanishes, but She Won't Go Away -- 8. The Trouble with Rebecca -- 9. Depth Psychology on the Surface: Hitchcock's Spellbound -- 10. Unrecognizable Origins: "The Song of the Dragon" and Notorious -- 11. Morbid Psychologies and So Forth: The Fine Art of Rope -- 12. Under a Distemperate Star: Under Capricorn -- 13. Bruno's Game, or the Case of the Sardonic Psychopath -- 14. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Dial M for Murder: The Submerged Televisuality of a Stage-to-Screen Adaptation -- 15. The Author of This Claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock, and Rear Window -- 16. To Catch a Thief: Light Reading on a Dark Topic -- 17. Woman as Death: Vertigo as Source -- 18. Psycho:Trust the Tale -- 19. Thirteen Ways of Looking at The Birds -- 20. A Brief Anatomy of Family Plot -- Appendix: Hitchcock's Films and Their Sources -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works--novels, plays, and short stories--into film.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hitchcock at the source
• ISBN: 1-4384-3750-1; 1-4619-0632-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824652103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, horizons of cinema.