UID:
almafu_9959241368002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (354 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4422-3088-6
Inhalt:
This collection of essays examines the various Hitchcock films that were adapted from other sources (short stories, play, and novels). Some of these essays focus on the director's collaboration with such notable writers as John Steinbeck (Lifeboat), Thornton Wilder (Shadow of a Doubt), and Raymond Chandler (Strangers on a Train), proving not only that Hitchcock knew good writing when he read it, but that he was quite ea
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Hitchcock and Authorship; 1 Hitchcock the Author; 2 Wrong Men on the Run; 3 The Role and Presence of Authorship in Suspicion; Part II: Hitchcock Adapting; 4 Melancholy Elephants; 5 Conrad's The Secret Agent, Hitchcock's Sabotage, and the Inspiration of "Public Uneasiness"; 6 Stranger(s) than Fiction; 7 Reading Hitchcock/Reading Queer; 8 "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts"; 9 "The Proper Geography"; 10 From Kaleidoscope to Frenzy; Part III: Hitching a Ride: The Collaborations; 11 Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination
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12 "The Name of Hitchcock! The Fame of Steinbeck!"13 "What Did Alma Think?"; Part IV: Adapting Hitchcock; 14 The Second Look, the Second Death; 15 Dark Adaptations; 16 Extraordinary Renditions; 17 The Culture of the Spectacle in American Psycho; Filmography; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4422-3087-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-306-57345-9
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
