LANIN GYURKO

SPELLBOUND

ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND CARLOS FUENTES

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This latest work by Lanin A. Gyurko explores the decisive impact of the films of one of the greatest of film directors, Alfred Hitchcock, on the intricate literary art of Latin America's outstanding novelist and short story writer and the founder of the Latin American Novel of the Boom, Carlos Fuentes. Alfred Hitchcock has transformed the cinematic world with a series of brilliant films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds and Marnie, all of which are examined in Dr. Gyurko's new volume. Although the bibliography on Alfred Hitchcock is copious, attesting both to his import and his genius, Dr. Gyurko's fascinating volume is the first extensively to examine the impact of Hitchcock's paradoxical, both realistic and supernatural art on Latin American literature. Captivating readers throughout the world, Fuentes himself is captivated, like millions held Spellbound by Hitchcock's rivetting masterpieces. Dr.Gyurko's new book will be of interest to classroom teachers of Spanish and Cinema Studies, specialists in Latin American Literature and Comparative Literature and Film, and fans of Alfred Hitchcock and Carlos Fuentes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookmundo
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 28mm x 170mm x 240mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9781952799358
• Artikelnr.: 70369564

Autorenporträt

Lanin Gyurko was Professor Emeritus in Latin American Studies and Film Studies at the University of Arizona. He wrote four books on Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and one on Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar. His monographs, chapters in academic books, and articles in professional journals ranged from pre-Columbian mythology to Chicano literature, from linguistics to film. An esteemed and dedicated teacher, he directed many doctoral dissertations and mentored many students. He developed and directed the Mexican and Mexican American Literature and Culture Studies Program in his department. In 2009 he was honored by the publication of an homage volume, Studies in Honor of Lanin A. Gyurko, a collection of essays written in the main by former Ph.D. students of his at the University of Arizona, now professors throughout the United States. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Arizona Student Union Advisory Board, celebrated by the ringing of the U.S.S. Arizona bell.