Raymond Bellour Bücher

Following his extraordinary 24 Hour Psycho, Douglas Gordon's latest film, Feature Film, further explores Alfred Hitchcock's dramatic devices. Where 24 Hour Psycho considered the effect of Hitchcock's thriller if extended to 24 hours and devoid of sound, Feature Film examines Vertigo's intense, anxiety-inducing music if separated from its on-screen narrative. This book contains stills from Gordon's film of Paris Opera conductor James Conlon rehearsing Bernard Hermann's Vertigo score Focusing on Conlon's hands, arms, and facial expressions, the stills provide a fascinating look at the sweeping and subtle gestures that comprise his physical interpretation of Vertigo's musical accompaniment. This book also includes a CD of the music actually recorded during the filming, as well as a separate insert containing two essays with background information on the music, the composer, and Gordon's film work.

"Wuthering Heights" appears in 1847 in an England constrained by Victorian propriety; it is the only novel by a twenty-eight-year-old writer nearing death from tuberculosis. Initially published in a limited number of copies, it does not attract much interest, but it later establishes itself as a singular masterpiece of English literature. Set in the solitary and wild moors of Yorkshire, it unfolds a tumultuous and destructive love affair. The intense contrasts between the inhabitants of a prosperous valley home and those of a farmhouse on a windy hill converge in the figure of the orphan Heathcliff. The contradictory and venomous human passions intertwine love with suffering and cruel revenge. The model of the "gothic" novel is transcended, rendered incandescent through symbolic suggestions and exceptional emotional intensity. The exploration of conflicting affections and extreme emotions does not compromise the precise style that dissects human understanding, infusing those unrecognizable transparencies with such a breath of life that they transcend reality. The appendix includes the most significant and touching letters from the rich correspondence of the Brontë family.

"Compiles artistic and analytical practices that expand thought on cinema ... thematizes archetypes and recurring patterns in film history ... with contributions from cultural history, philosophy, and film theory"--Blurb.