Hitchcock and the spy film / James Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, James, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

I.B. Tauris Film & Media Studies 2018

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Spy films--History and criticism.

Spy films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest, Torn Curtain and his unmade film The Short Night. Chapman's close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political and cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s to the atom spies and double agents of the post-war world."--Jacket flap.

Contents:

Pt. I. Britain. Hitchcock and British cinema

'Good, thick-eax melodrama of an oddly English type' : The man who knew too much (1934)

Hitchcock and Buchan : The 39 steps (1935)

Hitchcock and Maugham : Secret agent (1936)

Hitchcock and Conrad : Sabotage (1936)

Age of appeasement : The lady vanishes (1938)

pt. II. Hollywood. Hitchcock and American cinema

'A masterpiece of propaganda' : Foreign correspondent (1940)

The enemy within : Saboteur (1942)

The woman who knew too much : notorious (1946)

Upscaling the genre : The man who knew too much (1956)

The Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures' : North by Northwest (1959)

Hitchcock and James Bond

Hitchcock's Cold War : Tom Curtain (1966)

Hitchcock's Cold War

Take Two : Topaz (1969).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, (pages 290-328), filmography (pages 329-335), and index.

ISBN:

9781350986701

1350986704

9781786733078

1786733072

9781786723079

1786723077

OCLC:

1139315261