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ALFRED HITCHCOCK-CINEMA ON THE EDGE OF NOTHING
Εκδότης Skira , ISBN 9788857240930
Despite the particularly short-sighted and obtuse criticism that for years considered him an adorer of useless and dangerous toys, a puritan, complex-ridden fatso, a person obsessed with crime, blood and sex, Hitchcock revealed that the ordered world we thought we lived in is nothing but formless chaos and that seeming order is just a mask incessantly destined to come undone… There's a kind of dizzying, clear-sighted and unsettling nihilism in Hitchcock's films, which lands him not only among the greatest names in 20th-century cinema… but also a reference point for that crisis culture that - as Truffaut noted - sees him as an “unsettling artist” like Kafka, Dostoevsky and Poe. (Gianni Canova)
The book is a fascinating journey through the portrait of this famous filmmaker, the master of suspense and thrillers, thanks to an analysis of the first so-called “special effects”, today essential to so much contemporary cinema. It explores the psychology of the characters, the most memorable scenes and Alfred Hitchcock's personality; what emerges is the portrait of an extraordinary filmmaker who was able to tackle gloomy topics and manage our fears without forgetting irony, a fundamental component to his entire existence.
Περίληψη
Despite the particularly short-sighted and obtuse criticism that for years considered him an adorer of useless and dangerous toys, a puritan, complex-ridden fatso, a person obsessed with crime, blood and sex, Hitchcock revealed that the ordered world we thought we lived in is nothing but formless chaos and that seeming order is just a mask incessantly destined to come undone… There's a kind of dizzying, clear-sighted and unsettling nihilism in Hitchcock's films, which lands him not only among the greatest names in 20th-century cinema… but also a reference point for that crisis culture that - as Truffaut noted - sees him as an “unsettling artist” like Kafka, Dostoevsky and Poe. (Gianni Canova)
The book is a fascinating journey through the portrait of this famous filmmaker, the master of suspense and thrillers, thanks to an analysis of the first so-called “special effects”, today essential to so much contemporary cinema. It explores the psychology of the characters, the most memorable scenes and Alfred Hitchcock's personality; what emerges is the portrait of an extraordinary filmmaker who was able to tackle gloomy topics and manage our fears without forgetting irony, a fundamental component to his entire existence.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Canova, Gianni
- Eκδότης Skira
- ISBN 9788857240930
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100079350
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2019
- Σελίδες 200
- Διαστάσεις 22χ28
- Βάρος 500 gr
