Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship (eBook)

Leslie H. Abramson (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2015
XI, 282 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-30970-9 (ISBN)

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Hitchcock and the Anxiety of Authorship examines issues of cinema authorship engaged by and dynamized within the director's films. A unique study of self-reflexivity in Hitchcock's work from his earliest English silents to his final Hollywood features, this book considers how the director's releases constitute ever-shifting meditations on the conditions and struggles of creative agency in cinema. Abramson explores how, located in literal and emblematic sites of dramatic production, exhibition, and reception, and populated by figures of directors, actors, and audiences, Hitchcock's films exhibit a complicated, often disturbing vision of authorship - one that consistently problematizes rather than exemplifies the director's longstanding auteurist image. Viewing Hitchcock in a striking new light, Abramson analyzes these allegories of vexed agency in the context of his concepts of and commentary on the troubled association between cinema artistry and authorship, as well as the changing cultural, industrial, theoretical, and historical milieus in which his features were produced. Accordingly, the book illuminates how Hitchcock and his cinema register the constant dynamics that constitute film authorship.

Leslie H. Abramson, an adjunct professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, USA, is a film scholar teaching cinema and law. Her essays have been published in Hitchcock and Adaptation (2014), American Cinema of the 1960s (2008), In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011), New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s (2012), and various journals. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago.

Inhalt

Introduction:
Self-Reflexivity in Hitchcock's Cinema & Struggles of AuthorshipPART I:
COMPROMISING POSITIONS: THE DIRECTOR1. Introduction2. Murder!3. Sabotage4.
Notorious5. Vertigo6. PsychoPART II:
DRAMATIC ARTFULNESS: THE ACTOR 7. Introduction8. The Lodger9. The 39 Steps10.
Spellbound11. MarniePART III: DISTURBING SIGHTS: THE AUDIENCE 12.
Introduction13. The Ring14. The Man Who Knew Too Much15. Strangers
on a Train16. Rear Window17. The Birds Appendix: In Brief - Hitchcock's
Cameos

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 282 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Alfred Hitchcock • auteurism • British Cinema • Cinema • cinema authorship • cinema studies • Director • Film • Hollywood • Hollywood Cinema • Murder! • notorious • Psycho • Rear Window • Sabotage • Self-Reflexivity • spellbound • Strangers on a train • The 39 Steps • The Lodger • The Man who knew too much • The Ring • Vertigo
• ISBN-10: 1-137-30970-9 / 1137309709
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-30970-9 / 9781137309709