The wrong house : the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock / Steven Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Steven, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Architecture in motion pictures.

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

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Exhibitions.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Second edition.

Other Title:

Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock

Cartographic Data:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : nai010 Publishers, 2013.

Summary:

Architecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book.

Contents:

1. Space fright : The art director vanishes: Hitchcock and production design : Pure doorknob cinema: doors, windows, and stairs ; Family plots on single sets: cinematic confinement ; Torn curtains in rear windows: uncanny homes and gothic plots ; 2. The tourist who knew too much : City symphonies and cameos in the crowd: the suspense of urban modernity ; Montage of tourist attractions: Hitchcock's creative geography ; Sightseeing terror: metatourism and national monuments ; The trouble with museums: mausoleums of the gaze ; 3. Selected works: Hitchcock's domestic architecture : Houses : Under glass ceilings: Bunting House ; The old dark house: House number 17 ; Living behind the screen: Verloc House & Bijou Cinema ; Bad dream house: Newton House ; A comfortable little place: Wendice Apartment ; Kitchen sink claustrophobia: Balestrero House ; Schizoid architecture: Bates House & Motel ; Living in a cage: Brenner House ; Behind the jungle gym: Hayworth House ; Childhood memories: Edgar House

Country homes and mansions : Simple family life: Moat House ; Vitrivius Britannicus: Pengallan House ; Bluebeard's castle: Manderley ; Design before the fact: Aysgarth House ; Building above all suspicion: McLaidlaw House ; Manhattan manners: Sutton House ; Psycho-building: Green Manors ; Nazi hominess: Sebastian House ; Unfathomable plans: Paradine House ; Bedroom of the picturesque: Hindley Hall ; Warm, cozy, and protective: Keane House ; Tropical classicism: Minyago Yugilla ; The Oedipal bedroom: Anthony House

Modern hide-outs and look outs : Long-take architecture: Brandon-Phillip Penthouse ; Architecture of the gaze: Jeffries Apartment & Courtyard ; The machine in the garden: Vandamm House ; Appendix: Hitchcock's art directors.

Notes:

First edition published in conjunction with the exhibition The Wrong House, Suspense in Architecture: Alfred Hitchcock/PauHof (Wolfgang Pauzenberger & Michael Hofstätter), 20 September-25 November 2007 in deSingel International Arts Campus Antwerp.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-335), filmography, and index.

ISBN:

9789462080966

9462080968

OCLC:

856579715

Publisher Number:

99970309242