The art of pure cinema : Hitchcock and his imitators /
""This is not a book about Hitchcock. There are many of those in critical circles, and I wouldn't presume to add a great deal more to the landmark studies of scholars such as Raymond Bellour, Robin Wood, and William Rothman, among many others. But it is a book that attempts to situate...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The myth of pure cinema
- I. THE EVOLUTION OF PURE CINEMA. 1. Pure cinema in context
- 2. Hitchcock’s interlocutors
- II. THE MECHANICS OF PURE CINEMA. 3. The part is greater than the whole: toward an aesthetic philosophy of the fragment
- 4. The fragmented frame 1: expression, abstraction, schematization
- 5. Intensified schematics: Bava, Argento, and De Palma’s Body double
- 6. The fragmented frame 2: segmentation
- 7. Music you can hear: toward an abstract soundscape
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index.