Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, c2014.
Call No: 753HIT OST
Author: Osteen, Mark (editor)
Source: UK
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: xxxviii, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; AUTHORSHIP; AUTEUR THEORY; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; THIRTY-NINE STEPS, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1935); SHADOW OF A DOUBT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1943); LIFEBOAT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944); REAR WINDOW (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954); VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958); MARNIE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1964); FRENZY (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1972)
Summary: In Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen, Mark Osteen has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays that explore how Hitchcock and his screenwriters transformed literary and theatrical source material into masterpieces of cinema. Some of these essays look at adaptations through a specific lens, such as queer aesthetics applied to Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho, while others tackle the issue of Hitchcock as author, auteur, adaptor, and, for the first time, present Hitchcock as a literary source. Film adaptations discussed in this volume include The 39 Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Rear Window, Vertigo, Marnie, and Frenzy. Additional essays analyze Hitchcock-inspired works by W. G. Sebald, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, and others.
These close examinations of Alfred Hitchcock and the creative process illuminate the significance of the material he turned to for inspiration, celebrate the men and women who helped bring his artistic vision from the printed word to the screen, and explore how the director has influenced contemporary writers. A fascinating look into an underexplored aspect of the director’s working methods, Hitchcock and Adaptation will be of interest to film scholars and fans of cinema’s most gifted auteur. -- Extract from the back of book
Notes: Includes filmography -- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781442230873
Contents: Part 1. Hitchcock and authorship. -- Thomas M. Leitch: Hitchcock the author --
Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick: Wrong men on the run: The 39 steps as Hitchcock's espionage paradigm --
Patrick Faubert: the role and presence of authorship in Suspicion --
Part 2. Hitchcock adapting -- Ken Mogg: Melancholy elephants: Hitchcock and ingenious adaptation --
Matthew Paul Carlson: Conrad's The secret agent, Hitchcock's Sabotage, and the inspiration of "public uneasiness" --
Leslie H. Abramson: Stranger(s) than fiction: adaptation, modernity, and the menace of fan culture in Hitchcock's Strangers on a train --
Heath A. Diehl: Reading Hitchcock/ reading queer: adaptation, narrativity, and a queer mode of address in Rope, Strangers on a train, and Psycho --
Nicholas Andrew Miller: "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts": voyeurism and the spectacle of human suffering in Rear window -- John Bruns: "The proper geography": Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The birds" -- Tony Williams: From Kaleidoscope to Frenzy: Hitchcock's second British homecoming --
Part 3. Hitching a ride: the collaborations -- Donna Kornhaber: Hitchcock's diegetic imagination, Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a doubt and Hitchcock's mise-en-sce`ne -- Maria A. Judnick: "The name of Hitchcock! the fame of Steinbeck! The legacy of Lifeboat -- Christina Lane and Jo Botting: "What did Alma think?" continuity, writing, editing, and adaptation --
Part 4. Adapting Hitchcock -- Russell J. A. Kilbourn: The second look, the second death: W. G. Sebald's orphic adaptation of Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm: Dark adaptations: Robert Bloch and Hitchcock on the small screen -- Mark Osteen: Extraordinary renditions: Delillo's Point omega and Hitchcock's Psycho -- David Seed: The culture of spectacle in American psycho.