One Shot Hitchcock

A Contemporary Approach to the Screen

Luke Robinson, Melanie Robson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768288-3 (ISBN)

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In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the director's work. Adding to this pattern of innovation, the edited collection One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen utilizes formal analysis to interrogate key single shots from across Alfred Hitchcock's long career. This collection reveals the value of analyzing the single shot - within this small, cinematic unit is a code that unlocks a series of revelations about cinema as an artistic practice and a theoretical study. Each chapter examines one shot from a single film, beginning with The Lodger (1927) and ending with Frenzy (1972).

If Hitchcock is known as a director of suspense films and films about murder, the shots discussed in One Shot Hitchcock are his crime scenes. These are the shots that resist being forgotten, that repeatedly demand to be investigated, in which Hitchcock's influence on aesthetics and culture is at its most acute. Each chapter uses a different lens of film analysis - transnationalism, gender and sexuality, performance, history, affect, intermediality, remake studies, philosophy, and film form are all used to interrogate single shots. In these essays, the single shot from Hitchcock's film not only illustrates the approach in question but also demonstrates how the single shot encourages us to rethink our approaches to the screen. By reinvigorating a close formal mode of analysis, One Shot Hitchcock asks readers to think differently about film, offering a renewed assessment of Hitchcock's oeuvre in the process.

Luke Robinson is Casual Academic at the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales Sydney and University of Technology Sydney. Melanie Robson is Adjunct Lecturer at the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales Sydney

1. One Shot: Hitchcock's Crime Scenes
Luke Robinson and Melanie Robson

2. The Lodger (1927): Contaminating British silent cinema
Sebastian Smoli'nski

3. The Manxman (1929): Written on the water: Hitchcock's dissolving ink
Tom Gunning

4. Sabotage (1936): A thriller and its aftereffects
Helen Hughes

5. Rebecca (1940): The impure object of vision
Bruce Isaacs

6. Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Performing a murder(er)
Melanie Robson

7. Aventure Malgache (1944): French colonial tensions
Charles Barr

8. Rope (1948): Chromatic design and neon light
Sarah Street

9. Rear Window (1954): Intermedialities of peeping in the plural
Martin P. Rossouw

10. To Catch a Thief (1955): Stanley Cavell and the end of a conventional myth
Susana Viegas

11. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956): Hitchcock remakes himself in Hollywood
Megan Carrigy

12. The Wrong Man (1956): Towards singularity
Noa Steimatsky

13. Vertigo (1958): Labor in a single shot
Domietta Torlasco

14. The Birds (1963): Trauma and the right of reply
Julian Murphet

15. Marnie (1964): Restroom
Jodi Brooks

16. Frenzy (1972): Pulling focus between a woman's face and a face of death
Luke Robinson

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	65 b&w halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 226 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-768288-X / 019768288X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-768288-3 / 9780197682883
Zustand	Neuware