Watching Cosmic Time (eBook)

The Suspense Films of Hitchcock, Welles, and Reed

Matthew Dwight Moore (Autor)

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2022
140 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-2654-1 (ISBN)

Infos

How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries--contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that fetishized clocks and time-keeping devices as diverse as Peter Pan, High Noon, Rear Window, Shadow of a Doubt, The Stranger, and Odd Man Out produce unique experiences that invited audiences to literally watch cosmic time? What role did cinema audiences play in perpetuating the presumption that order exists in the universe--and how have the polyvalent institutions of church and state implicated human agency in such perpetuation? This full-length academic treatment of the topic employs formal film analysis that is situated squarely within historical studies and addresses these cinematic and phenomenological questions--and more.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2022
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: 1899-1980 • 1906-1976 • 1915-1985 • Alfred • Carol • Christianity • Cinema • criticism and interpretation • Direction and Production • Film • Film production: technical and background skills • Films • Film: styles and genres • Genres • History and Criticism • Hitchcock • Matthew Dwight Moore • orson • performing arts • reed • Space and time in motion pictures • Suspense • Thrillers (Motion pictures) • war • Watching Cosmic Time • welles
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-2654-0 / 1666726540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-2654-1 / 9781666726541