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“…Alfred Hitchcock collection.…”

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Table of Contents: “….) -- Hitchcock / Truffaut interview excerpts -- Alfred Hitchcock presents "Mr. Blanchard's Secret" / directed by Alfred Hitchcock (27 min.).…”

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“…Alfred Hitchcock & the British cinema.…”
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“…Alfred Hitchcock mystery series ; 29…”

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“…Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho…”

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Table of Contents: “…Coherence and transparency in classical narrative film -- Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest --…”

Table of Contents: “…Kindred spirits: analogies between the film and literary artist: Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin; Mark Twain and John Ford; Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock; Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles --…”

“…Alfred Hitchcock's north by northwest…”

Table of Contents: “…Some preliminary remarks -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Orson Welles -- Jean Renoir -- A family portrait.…”

Table of Contents: “…Eric Von Stroheim -- Carl Theodor Dreyer -- Preston Sturges -- Luis Buñuel -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Akira Kurosawa…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Theory of genre -- Film noir: the genre defined -- Objections -- Style -- Period style -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Meanings -- Last words.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Federico Fellini -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Luis Buñuel -- Robert Bresson -- Ingmar Bergman -- Alfred Hitchcock -- The new wave. François Truffaut ; Jean-Luc Godard ; Alain Resnais.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The great dictator by Charles Chaplin -- Children of paradise by Marcel Carné -- Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein -- Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock -- It's a wonderful life by Frank Capra -- The bicycle thief by Vittorio De Sica -- Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa.…”

Table of Contents: “…--The benefits of shock, Alfred Hitchcock.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : artists in an industry -- Charles Chaplin : the little fellow in a big world -- Howard Hawks : lonely are the brave -- Alfred Hitchcock : through a glass darkly -- George Cukor : a touch of class -- George Stevens : in search of a hero -- Fred Zinnemann : darkness at noon -- Stanley Kubrick : stop the world -- Francis Coppola : the lower depths -- Carol Reed : the disenchanted -- David Lean : the undefeated -- Joseph Losey : decline and fall -- Bryan Forbes : the kitchen sink-drome -- John Schlesinger : kinds of loving -- Ken Russell : the past as present.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Excess, the gaze, and cinema of confinement -- Excess in confinement in Room and Green room -- Big window, big other: enjoyment and spectatorship in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope -- Interior confinement: shattering and disintegration in Ingmar Bergman's The passion of Anna -- It "over-looks": movement and stillness in Stanley Kubrick's The shining -- "It's just a show?" …”
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Table of Contents: “…De Mille -- German Expressionist Film -- Charlie Chaplin -- Jazz Singer -- Rise and fall of the studios: Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich -- Gangster Movies -- Walt Disney -- 1950s horror -- Musicals -- Casablanca -- Citizen Kane -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Saul Bass -- Howard Hawks -- Billy wilder -- Audrey Hepburn -- James Dean -- Jean Renoir -- Ealing Comedies -- Italian watercolour posters -- Jane Russell and Rita Hayworth -- New wave and blockbusters: Cuban film posters -- Polish film posters -- Czech film posters -- French new wave -- Jean-Luc Godard -- Joseph Mankiewicz -- British films of the 1960s -- Peter Strausfeld -- Ingmar Bergman -- Luis Bunuel -- Federico Fellini -- James Bond -- Clint Eastwood -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Stanley Kubrick -- 2001: Space Odyssey -- Beatles -- Exhibitionists -- US Counter-Cultural Cinema -- Midnight Cowboy -- Jack Nicholson -- Barbarella -- Francis Ford Coppola -- Martin Scorsese -- Woody Allen -- Last Tango in Paris -- John Cassavetes -- Bollywood -- Star Wars -- Bob Peak -- Dawn of the multiplex: Spike Lee -- Wings of Desire -- Krzysztof Kieslowski -- China's Fifth Generation -- 1980s French Style -- Ridley Scott -- Julian Schnabel -- Jim Jarmusch and Andrzej Klimowski -- Coen Brothers -- David Lynch -- Steven Spielberg -- Pedro Almodovar and Juan Gatti -- Peter Greenaway -- Trainspotting -- Quentin Tarantino -- Silence of the Lambs -- Dogme 95 -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro -- Richard Linklater -- Harmony Korine -- Gus Van Sant -- Mike Leigh -- Makhmalbafs -- Ken Loach -- Tim Burton -- Bazmark Films -- 21st-Century Escapism -- Selected bibliography -- Biographies of selected artists -- Index.…”

Table of Contents: “…Alfred Hitchcock, or, the form and its historical mediation / Slavoj Žižek -- Hitchcockian suspense / Pascal Bonitzer -- Hitchcock's objects / Mladen Dolar -- Spatial systems in North by northwest / Frederic Jameson -- A perfect place to die : theatre in Hitchcock's films / Alenka Zupančič -- Punctum caecum, or, of insight and blindness / Stojan Pelko -- Hitchcockian sinthoms / Slavoj Žižek -- The spectator who knew too much / Mladen Dolar -- The cipher of destiny / Michel Chion -- A father who is not quite dead / Mladen Dolar -- Notorious / Pascal Bonitzer -- The fourth side / Michel Chion -- The man behind his own retina / Miran Božovič -- The skin and the straw / Pascal Bonitzer -- The right man and the wrong woman / Renata Salecl -- The impossible embodiment / Michel Chion -- 'In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large' / Slavoj Žižek.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Problem of bodies in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Joel Coen's Blood simple / Larry E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Murnau's The last laugh and Charles Chaplin's The adventurer -- The conversion to sound and the classical Hollywood film: Howard Hawks's His girl Friday -- Expressive realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane -- Italian neorealism: Vittorio de Sica's The bicycle thief -- Auteur theory and the French new wave: Fran©ʹois Truffaut's The 400 blows -- Hollywood auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious -- The European art film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 -- Film and postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall -- Political cinema: Spike Lee's Do the right thing -- Feminism and film form: Patricia Rozema's I've heard the mermaids singing -- Epilogue: digital video and new forms of narrative in Mike Figgis's Timecode.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: maternal sexuality and the nuclear family in Gas, Food, Lodging / Elaine Roth -- Hollywood's "moms'' and postwar America / Mike Chopra-Gant -- Alfred Hitchcock and the phobic maternal body / Mun-Hou Lo -- Paranoia, cold surveillance, and the maternal gaze : reconsidering the "absent mother'' in Ordinary People / Mark Harper -- Scream, popular culture, and feminism's third wave : "I'm not my mother'' / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn -- Great ladies and guttersnipes : class and the representation of southern mothers in Hollywood films / Aimee Berger -- "Don't say mammy'' : Camille Billops's meditations on Black motherhood / Janet K. …”

Table of Contents: “…: Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen series / Andrew Scahill -- Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) / Kiu-wai Chu -- Batteries Have Run Out: Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen / Gilles Chamerois -- A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children / Carolyn Salvi -- Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others / Christian Stewen -- The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) / Debbie Olson -- Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly / Fran Hassencahl.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Pudovkin ; Collision of ideas / Sergei Eisenstein ; The art of sound / René Clair ; Sight and sound / Gavin Lambert ; Direction / Alfred Hitchcock ; Acting and behaving / Alexander Knox ; The writer and the film / Dudley Nichols -- Film and the other arts. …”

Table of Contents: “…Engorged with desire: the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the gendered politics of eating / David Greven -- 22. …”

Table of Contents: “…Strangelove -- Jules Dassin: Phaedra -- Orson Welles: The trial -- Martin Ritt: Hud -- Joseph Mankiewicz: Cleopatra -- Alfred Hitchcock: The birds. U.S.A.: underground. Frank-Leslie: Pull my daisy -- John Cassavetes: Shadows -- Some animadversions on the art film -- The above-ground underground -- Shirley Clarke: The cool world -- Adolfas & Jonas Mekas: Hallelujah the hills. …”

Table of Contents: “…Touched by Ernst Lubitsch -- The John Ford code -- Three by Howard Hawks -- Frank Capra, true believer -- Guilty: Alfred Hitchcock -- That wild so-and-so William A. Wellman -- The Orson Welles dilemma -- John Brahm: the evil that men do -- Michael Curtiz's Doris Day period -- Anthony Mann of the west -- Sam Fuller's pulp cinema -- Akira Kurosawa's deep focus -- Medieval Ingmar Bergman: God is in the house, maybe -- Sergio Leone: heroes, villains, and idiots -- Sidney Lumet's family plots -- The magical unreality of Lech Majewski -- Edward Yang's family ties -- Houdini escapes! …”

Table of Contents: “…Coppola films Conrad in Vietnam / Diane Jacobs -- The secret agent (1907), Joseph Conrad. Alfred Hitchcock, 1936: Sabotage. Conrad and Hitchcock: secret sharers / James Goodwin -- Of human bondage (1915), W. …”

Table of Contents: “…Auteurs -- 'The Genius of Howard Hawks' (May 1953) / Jacques Rivette -- 'The Essential' (review of Otto Preminger's Angel Face) (February 1954) / Jacques Rivette -- 'Serious Things' (review of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window) (April 1955) / Claude Chabrol -- 'The Hand' (review of Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt) (November 1957) / Jacques Rivette -- 'Sam Fuller: In Marlowe's Footsteps' (March 1959) / Luc Moullet -- IV. …”

Table of Contents: “…Howard Hughes, 5 April 1976 -- Field Marshal Montgomery, Soldier who became victor of El Alamein and a legend in his own lifetime 24 March 1976 -- Mao Tse-tung, Revolutionary leader who inspired the regeneration of China 9 September 1976 -- Benjamin Britten, A major contribution to English music 4 December 1976 -- Elvis Presley, 'The king' of rock and roll music 16 August 1977 -- Maria Callas, Operatic star of genius 16 September 1977 -- Charlie Chaplin, Comic genius of the cinema screen 25 December 1977 -- Jesse Owens, Memorable performance at the Berlin Olympics 30 March 1980 -- Jean-Paul Sartre, A leading original thinker of the twentieth century 14 April 1980 -- Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Master of screen suspense 29 April 1980 -- Mae West, Film humorist who made sex a shared joke 22 November 1980 -- John Lennon, Dominant role in a pop music revolution 8 December 1980 -- Bob Marley, 11 May 1981 -- Glenn Gould, 4 October 1982 -- Sir Douglas Bader, Showing the way to the disabled 5 September 1982 -- Orson Welles, Formidable and inventive actor and producer 10 October 1985 -- Henry Moore, Sculptor of international reputation 31 August 1986 -- Andy Warhol, Art for publicity's sake 22 February 1987 -- Jacqueline du Pr�e, 19 October 1987 -- Sir Frederick Ashton, Great choreographer and founder-figure of British ballet 18 August 1988 -- Laurence Olivier, Player of spellbinding power and versatility 11 July 1989 -- Sugar Ray Robinson, Supreme exponent of pugilistic skills 12 April 1989 -- Ayatollah Khomeini, Cleric who led Iran to the past 3 June 1989 -- Herbert von Karajan, Master conductor of opera, orchestra, and recordings 16 July 1989 -- Samuel Beckett, Unassuming genius who probed the quandary of human existence 22 December 1989 -- Margot Fonteyn, 21 February 1991 -- Peggy Ashcroft, 14 June 1991 -- Miles Davis, 28 September 1991 -- Robert Maxwell, 5 November 1991 -- Menachem Begin, 9 March 1992 -- Francis Bacon, 28 April 1992 -- Elizabeth David, 22 May 1992 -- Willy Brandt, 8 October 1992 -- Rudolf Nureyev, 6 January 1993 -- Richard Nixon, 22 April 1994 -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 19 May 1994 -- Fred Perry, 2 February 1995 -- Harold Wilson, 24 May 1995 --…”
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