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David Schroeder - Hitchcock's Ear, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Hitchcock's Ear

Music and the Director's Art

Av David Schroeder

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The author focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. Music is an underexplored dimension in Hitchcock's works. Taking a different view from most works on Hitchcock, David Schroeder focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema. The structure and rhythm of his films is an important addition to the critical literature on Hitchcock and our understanding of his films and approach to filmmaking. Alfred Hitchcock liked to describe his work as a director in musical terms; for some of his films, it appears that he started with an underlying musical conception, and transformed that sense of music into visual images. The director's favorite scenes lacked dialogue, and they made their impact through a combination of non-verbal actions and music. For example, the waltz and the piano are used as powerful images in silent films, and this approach carries over into sound films. Looking at such films as "Vertigo", "Rear Window", and "Shadow of a Doubt", Schroeder provides a unique look at the way that Hitchcock thought about cinema in musical terms.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-03-22
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 487 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 280
  • Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781441114587
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David Schroeder holds a PhD from Cambridge University, and is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University. His books include Haydn and the Enlightenment (Oxford UP, 1990), Mozart in Revolt (Yale UP, 1999), Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film (Continuum, 2002), and Our Schubert: His Enduring Legacy (Scarecrow, 2008).

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Unlike scholars who focus on Hitchcock's music as compositions that serve the narrative or as major artistic accomplishments in their own right, Schroeder sees music as the underlying impulse that determines much of Hitchcock's style. Taking Hitchcock's comparison between filmmaking and orchestration to a new level, Schroeder proposes analogies between music's formal properties and Hitchcock's conception of editing rhythms, compositional design, character and camera movement, and narrative structure. Schroeder also analyzes music as motif, drawing attention to the pervasive presence of dance in Hitchcock's oeuvre, especially the waltz as it embodies the tension between the forces of order and disorder and the piano as a gendered instrument of seduction and death. --Elisabeth Weis, Professor of Film at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track

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