2010, ISBN: 9781844573585

U?pon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identifica… More...

U?pon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition.In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error'. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. This band of amis inconnus, among them William Empson, Edgar Morin and Manny Farber, had at its head Durgnat's mentor Thorold Dickinson. The book's story begins in the early 1960s, when Dickinson made the long hard look the basis of his pioneering film course at the Slade School of Fine Art, and Psycho became one of its first objects. Books Henry Miller|Paperback|Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|16/09/2010, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC<

2010, ISBN: 9781844573585

Vorwort: Miller, Henry, British Film Institute, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 2nd ed. 2010, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-16T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 195 black & white ha… More...

Vorwort: Miller, Henry, British Film Institute, Taschenbuch, Auflage: 2nd ed. 2010, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-16T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 195 black & white halftones, 1.07 kg, Verkaufsrang: 2445637, Klassiker, Erotik, Kategorien, Bücher, Bühne, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Filmführer & -bewertungen, Geschichte & Kritik, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Taschenbücher, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4201, British Film Institute, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9781844573585

British Film Inst, 2010. Paperback. New. 2nd edition. 290 pages. 7.00x5.00x1.00 inches., British Film Inst, 2010, 6

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