Alfred Hitchcock's A Casebook collects some of the finest essays on this groundbreaking film--a film that is ideal for teaching the language of cinema and the ways in which strong filmmakers can break Hollywood conventions. Psycho is a film that can be used to present the structures of composition and cutting, narrative and genre building, and point of view. The film is also a highpoint of the horror genre and an instigator of all the slasher films to come in its wake. The essays in the casebook cover all of these elements and more. They also serve another presented chronologically, they represent the changes in the methodologies of film criticism, from the first journalist reviews and early auteurist approaches, through current psychoanalytic and gender criticism. Other selections include an analysis of Bernard Hermann's score and its close relationship to Hitchcock's visual construction; the famous Hitchcock interview by François Truffaut; and an essay byRobert Kolker that, through the use of stills taken directly from the film, closely reads its extraordinary cinematic structure. Contributors include Robert Kolker, Stephen Rebello, Bosley Crowther, Jean Douchet, Robin Wood, Raymond Durgnat, Royal S. Brown, George Toles, Robert Samuels, and Linda Williams.
Robert Phillip Kolker Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
Robert Kolker, emeritierter Professor, widmete sich fast 50 Jahre lang der Lehre von Filmwissenschaften. Seine Arbeit befasst sich mit tiefgreifenden existenziellen Themen und untersucht, wie filmische Schöpfungen menschliche Einsamkeit widerspiegeln und gestalten. Durch akribische Analyse von Charakteren und Erzählungen deckt er die komplexe Psychologie von Individuen und ihre Einsamkeit in ihrer umgebenden Umwelt auf. Sein Ansatz zeichnet sich durch einen Fokus auf visuelle Sprache und Symbolik aus, was seinen Werken ein tiefes resonantes Potenzial verleiht.
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Analyzes a variety of motion pictures which use innovative techniques, challenge the audience's opinions, and explore social and political issues