Reassessing the Hitchcock touch : industry, collaboration, and filmmaking

• Main Author: Schwanebeck, Wieland
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation ; Motion picture industry; 791.4302 REA 2017
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/92279
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock's own films yet which cannot be limited to the realm of Hitchcockian cinema alone. While the first section of this collection focuses on Hitchcock's own films and the various people who made important artistic contributions to them, the subsequent chapters draw wider circles. Case studies focusing on the branding effects associated with Hitchcockian cinema and its seductive qualities highlight the paratextual dimension of his films and the importance of his well-publicized persona, while the final section addresses both Hitchcock's formative period, as well as other filmmakers who drew upon the Hitchcock Touch.Introducing the Hitchcock Touch / Wieland Schwanebeck -- Facing the past as well as the future: music and sound in Hitchcock's early British sound films / Claudia Bullerjahn -- Between Caméra Stylo and the making of images: Hitchcock's cinematographers / Ralf Heiner Heinke -- Hitchcock's plotting / Hans-Ulrich Mohr -- Hitchcock's brunettes: visualizing queerness in the 1940s and 1950s / Gesine Wegner -- Gazing and constructing: imag(in)ing Madeleine in Vertigo / Eckhard Pabst -- "If I won't be myself, who will?" The making of a star persona in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour / Nadine Seligmann -- Alfred Hitchcock: cinematic seducer Frenzy and the seduction theory of film / Marcus Stiglegger -- The visual peak: Saul Bass as Hitchcock's 'Pictorial Consultant' / Stefan Jung -- Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators series / H. Alan Pickrell -- Jack of all trades: Alfred Hitchcock's apprenticeship in Neubabelsberg, 1924/25 / Andy Räder -- Hitchcock- Powell- Ford / Charles Barr -- Uncommon dangers: Alfred Hitchcock and the literary contexts of the British spy thriller / Alan George Burton -- Jaws: directed by Alfred Hitchcock / Wieland Schwanebeck.