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ISBN10: 0275970892, ISBN13: 9780275970895, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt stamping. Covers are clean and tight. Binding is strong. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 2003. 222 pages, free of marks or tears. With chapters on Hitchcock's "interested in French culture and French critics' [. . .] interest in him", from 1950 to 1959. Please email with questions or to request a few photos. [Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
ISBN10: 0275970892, ISBN13: 9780275970895, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Bumped edges. Book is warped. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries. [Hereford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]
Praeger 2003 Hardcover Very good Bumped edges. Book is warped. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next working day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.
ISBN10: 0275970892, ISBN13: 9780275970895, [publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated] Hardcover pp. 240 52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam [Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]
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ISBN10: 0275970892, ISBN13: 9780275970895, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and French critics' sometimes complementary, sometimes confrontational interest in him. In the 1950s, Hitchcock was increasingly committed to including French-related elements in his films to enhance suspense and humor. At that same time, young critics in France-including Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Luc Godard-discovered in Hitchcock's films the mark of an auteur. They saw in him the creator of a cohesive body of work that bore his unique imprint, and in so doing, they countered the dominant opinion of Hitchcock as a proficient craftsman but ultimately just a maker of implausible melodramas. These interactions, explored fully and in-depth here, led not only to a revolution in film criticism, but also to a reenergizing of French cinema as well as the creation of a reputation that has lasted decades.Here is examined for the first time the cultural and intellectual background of those convergences in the mid-1950s-when the auteur theory was first being developed-as well as Hitchcock's transformation of French source materials in such films as I Confess and Vertigo, his use of French allusions in several films, and his Ne ...
ISBN10: 0275970892, ISBN13: 9780275970895, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In his bold new study of the career of one of filmmaking's premier directors, author James M. Vest traces two intertwining strands of history: Alfred Hitchcock's interest in French culture, and French critics' sometimes complementary, sometimes confrontational interest in him. In the 1950s, Hitchcock was increasingly committed to including French-related elements in his films to enhance suspense and humor. At that same time, young critics in France-including François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Luc Godard-discovered in Hitchcock's films the mark of an auteur. They saw in him the creator of a cohesive body of work that bore his unique imprint, and in so doing, they countered the dominant opinion of Hitchcock as a proficient craftsman but ultimately just a maker of implausible melodramas. These interactions, explored fully and in-depth here, led not only to a revolution in film criticism, but also to a reenergizing of French cinema as well as the creation of a reputation that has lasted decades.Here is examined for the first time the cultural and intellectual background of those convergences in the mid-1950s-when the auteur theory was first being developed-as well as Hitchcock's transformation of French source materials in such films as I Confess and Vertigo, his use of French allus ...
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