Leslie H. Abramson

Hitchcock & the Anxiety of Authorship

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Produktbeschreibung

Hitchcock and theAnxiety of Authorship examines issues ofcinema authorship engaged by and dynamized within the director's films. Aunique study of self-reflexivity in Hitchcock's work from his earliest Englishsilents to his final Hollywood features, this book considers how the director'sreleases constitute ever-shifting meditations on the conditions and strugglesof creative agency in cinema. Abramson explores how, located in literal andemblematic sites of dramatic production, exhibition, and reception, andpopulated by figures of directors, actors, and audiences, Hitchcock's filmsexhibit a complicated, often disturbing vision of authorship - one thatconsistently problematizes rather than exemplifies the director's longstandingauteurist image. Viewing Hitchcock in a striking new light, Abramson analyzesthese allegories of vexed agency in the context of his concepts of andcommentary on the troubled association between cinema artistry and authorship,as well as the changing cultural, industrial, theoretical, and historicalmilieus in which his features were produced. Accordingly, the book illuminateshow Hitchcock and his cinema register the constant dynamics that constitutefilm authorship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-30969-3
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781137309693
• ISBN-10: 1137309695
• Artikelnr.: 42851829

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Self-Reflexivity in Hitchcock's Cinema & Struggles of Authorship
PART I: COMPROMISING POSITIONS: THE DIRECTOR
1. Introduction
2. Murder!
3. Sabotage
4. Notorious
5. Vertigo
6. Psycho
PART II: DRAMATIC ARTFULNESS: THE ACTOR
7. Introduction
8. The Lodger
9. The 39 Steps
10. Spellbound
11. Marnie
PART III: DISTURBING SIGHTS: THE AUDIENCE
12. Introduction
13. The Ring
14. The Man Who Knew Too Much
15. Strangers on a Train
16. Rear Window
17. The Birds
Appendix: In Brief - Hitchcock's Cameos

Rezensionen

"Just when it seemed like scholars had little new to write about Hitchcock's films, Abramson provides us with an original reading ranging from the early British films to the American productions of the 60s and 70s. By integrating the director's extensive nonfiction writings and interviews with the self-reflexive artistry that characterizes his movies, Abramson reveals how Hitchcock contradicts traditional auteurist claims about his work, allowing readers to (re)consider how the director articulates the complexities of the creative process. Abramson's accessible writing will encourage those new to Hitchcock to relish the joy of discovering his classic movies and film scholars to applaud her insights into this treacherous cinematic landscape." - Lester D. Friedman, Professor, former Chair, Media and Society Program, Hobart College, USA and William Smith College, USA