Hitchcock at the Source by R Barton Palmer
Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock transformed a variety of literary sources-novels, plays, short stories-into what is arguably the most coherent and distinctive (narratively, stylistically, and thematically) of all directorial oeuvres. After an introduction surveying the nature and diversity of Hitchcock's sources and locating the current volume in the context of theoretical work on adaptation, nineteen original essays range across the entirety of Hitchcock's career, from the silent period through to the 1970s. In addition to addressing the process of adaptation in particular films in terms of plot and character, the contributors also consider less obvious matters of tone, technique, and ideology; Hitchcock's manipulation of the conventions of literary and dramatic genres such as spy fiction and romantic comedy; and more general problems, such as Hitchcock's shift from plays to novels as his major sources in the course of the 1930s.-
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
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Visions in the Frame
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Hitchcock and Hospitality
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Brief Encounters
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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From Doors to Screens
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The Biopolitical Turn in World Cinema
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Language Without Borders
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Overhearing Film Music
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On Shoreless Sea
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Haunting the World
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Celluloid Babel
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Happiness and Tears, After Cavell
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Cavell on Film
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Eccentric Laughter
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Déjà Viewed
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Plastic Time
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The Celluloid Atlantic
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Torturous Etiquettes
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The Slapstick Camera
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Action, Action, Action
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Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East
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Seeing Symphonically
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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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Writ on Water
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Curtains of Light
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The Other French New Wave
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Screen Adaptations: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir
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Hitchcock's Moral Gaze
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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
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Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama
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Machaut's Legacy
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Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen
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Allegory and the Poetic Self
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Guillaume de Mauchaut
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ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks
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Modern British Drama on Screen
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The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh
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Hollywood's Tennessee
"…an invigorating, insightful, and original volumeThe focus on the sources of Hitchcock's plots and ideas never diminishes the genius of Hitchcock. The real reward here is the comparison between literary achievement and cinematic achievement." — CHOICE
"The complexity and sweep of this book are staggering; this is a one-stop source for information on the literary origins of Hitchcock's works. This is a one-of-a-kind text, which fills a real niche in both film and Hitchcock studies." — Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
"The book is replete with fresh insights into particular films and source texts, fresh approaches to the work of a hugely important and influential screen artist, and fresh evidence for the value of adaptation studies." — David Sterritt, author of The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University has written and edited many books on various literary and cinematic subjects. David Boyd is Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Palmer and Boyd are coeditors of After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438437491 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438437498 |
| Title | Hitchcock at the Source |
| Author | R Barton Palmer |
| Series | Suny Series Horizons Of Cinema |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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