Hitchcock and contemporary art / Christine Sprengler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sprengler, Christine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. These practices are more than celebrations of his cinematic achievements. The artworks considered here are motivated by a cinephilia often deeply imprinted by epistemophilia, that is, a love of cinema charged by a desire to know more about it and to revel in the pleasures of discovery. As such, these works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image. Christine Sprengler is Associate Professor of Art History at Western University Canada. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Alfred and the artworld

Cinephilic pilgrimages and the reification of profilmic space

Activating memories and museums through the expanded essay film

Remediation and intermediality: from moving to (film) still

Spatial montage, temporal collage, and the art(ifice) of rear projection

The acoustics of Vertigo: soundtracks, soundscapes and scores

Conclusion: repossessing cinema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230392151

0230392156

OCLC:

861788989