Search Results for: "Hitchcock"

Since the clerico-authoritarian regime, often referred to as ‘Austrofascism’ (1933–38), which arose through Chancellor Dollfuss and his Fatherland Front movement to suppress real and anticipated threats to Aust...

Robert Philip Kolker has given us two very useful film books: The Altering Eye and A Cinema of Loneliness are excellent accounts of post-war European cinema (which take in other parts of the world too), and 197...

This two-part essay basically concerns Alfred Hitchcock’s relation to Catholicism. My thanks to Senses of Cinema for allowing its publication over two issues. Its departure-point, we saw, was David Sterritt’s c...

This two-part essay basically concerns Alfred Hitchcock’s relation to Catholicism. My thanks to Senses of Cinema for allowing its publication over two issues. If it challenges at all Raymond Durgnat’s estimatio...

Discussing Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), Peter Ackroyd likens its director “to another great London visionary, Charles Dickens.” In a few deft lines, beginning, “Although the outward circumstances of their l...

Early in Hitchcock Lost and Found (p. 2) Alain Kerzoncuf and Charles Barr note the unique “enthusiasm” that has surrounded the director's films – at any rate since Cahiers du Cinéma in France and then Movi...

Notorious (1946) is widely known as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most lucid and pure works, emblematic of the auteur’s take on suspense and love, and his simplified, stylised cinematic storytelling. Its synopsis i...

The explanation for the Woman Double theme of The Virgin and The Whore, which I would like to believe is common cultural knowledge by now, is brilliantly enunciated by Freud in two of his most famous and influe...

In the unusual opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955), the camera tracks from left to right over primitive, cartoon-like drawings depicting an autumn pastoral:  birds and trees of ...

Boy meets girl…and falls in love. In this case, Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman in Notorious. Murray Pomerance’s analysis demonstrates how Hitchcock’s astute mise-en-scene makes it happen.

In this brilliantly imaginative piece, Ken Mogg takes several literary texts and uses them to synoptically illuminate Hitchcock’s intentions behind The Birds. Don’t for a second believe that Daphne du Maurier’s short story is the only literary influence.

Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf resurrects some insightful archival material regarding Hitchcock’s 1944 short war-effort propaganda film.

Richard Allen demonstrates his enduring fascination and respect for Hitchcock’s filmmaking within a compelling new authorial study. Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony examines the director’s overarching modes of narrat...

“This essay is a return to the scene of the crime.” The author of Hitchcock and 20^th Century Cinema re-evaluates his low opinion of Stage Fright, and discovers that the affinities between Hitchcock’s cinema and the philosopher David Hume run far deeper than he had first imagined.

Alfred Hitchcock’s film of John Buchan’s novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was one of his most successful, and he repeatedly used the story template in other films, such as North by Northwest. But Hitchcock showed little empathy for Buchan’s ideology.

The fate of Alfred Hitchcock’s little-seen film about the French Resistance reads like one of his own espionage thrillers. Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf tracks through the archives in search of evidence.

American scholar Tom Cohen, whose areas of expertise include literature, cinema and cultural studies, gained international reputation with the publication of his first monograph, Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitc...

Part Two of a unique research piece that documents and transcribes the contents of many, though now, rarely seen trailers to Hitchcock's features. A valuable document for Hitchcock scholars and film historians.

b. August 13, 1899, London, England d. April 29, 1980, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Alfred Hitchcock – Master of Paradox Note from the author ...

A unique research piece that documents and transcribes the contents of many, though now, rarely seen trailers to Hitchcock's features. A valuable document for Hitchcock scholars and film historians.

Back for Christmas (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) (1956 USA 25 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shamley Productions Filmed at: Revue Studios Prod: Joan Harrison Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Scr: Francis ...

Banquo's Chair (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) (1959 USA 25mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shamley Productions Filmed at: Revue Studios Prod: Joan Harrison Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Scr: Francis Cockr...

A probing examination into Hitchcock's cinema and its pull between the expressionist and the formalist/conceptual.

McElhaney considers this revised edition of Wood's earlier 1965 classic, and the continuities and changes it brings in regards to Wood's body of work on Hitch.

Barr's book does a fine job at exploring a traditionally neglected area: Hitchcock's English films and their indebtedness to English national culture.

Ehrenstein reviews this special double issue of French film magazine Trafic, published in 2002.

This paper was presented at the Alfred Hitchcock conference For the Love of Fear convened by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, held from 31 March to 2 April 2000, and contains some references to film...

There are many books on Hitch around - this one is written by the author of The MacGuffin.

Hollywood never knew what to do with Gloria Grahame. When Grahame’s movie career stalled in the early 1960s, she had only been in the business for fifteen years. In that short time, she had appeared in a string...

The mid-1980s ushered in an unprecedented flourishing of a vibrant, fervent cinephile culture in Tokyo. The bubble economy was in full swing, some of which trickled down to the cultural sector. Across the city,...

My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, I had been educated by technically refined psychological hor...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Jacob Agius Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Dan Auiler Swapnil Azad Jessica Balanzategui Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Bar...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Daryl Chin Kristen Marie Coleman Jesús Cortés Jordan Cronk Joe CruzBrian...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: John Edmond William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Cristóbal Escobar Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Giampiero Frasca Cynthia FuchsFlora Georgiou...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...