Perpetual movement : Alfred Hitchcock's Rope / Neil Badmington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badmington, Neil, 1971- author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

The SUNY series horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Rope (Motion picture).

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Archival Sources

Introduction Entangled

Why?

Perpetual Movement(s)

A Whole Book?

Rope Guide I

Rope Guide II

Form

1 Operation Rope

Transatlantic

Source(s)

Adaptation

Production #358

or, Rehearsing the Camera

Release

Outside the Apartment, David's Rope

2 Inside

A Playful Little Prank

Leaning into the Afternoon

or, Innuendoing to the Converted

Inside, Looking Out

"S" Marks the Spot

Distance, Harvard, Princeton

Other Rooms and a Choice of Words

The Case of the Canted Candle

Making a Masterpiece

3 Entrances, Elsewheres

Cut to the Quick

Downright Peculiar

An Ordinary Household Article

Cometh the Kenneth

4 In the Bedroom

From Art to Artifice

A New Young American Primitive

From Brandon to Kenneth to David

"David!"

The Curious Case of Dick Hogan

C'est SA

A Room of One's Own?

5 Just Plain Something

Rupert, Special Pâté, Special Access

Cassone

The Legend of the Mistletoe Bough

Another Strand: That New Thing with Bergman

Lazarus and the Chicken

6 Miss Sashweight of the Blunt Instrument Department

The Art of Murder according to Rupert Cadell

Framing of Frames

7 From OR to "We"

Just Desserts

OR

"We"

Like the Grave

That Thing

8 Two Small Fugitives from a Bowl of Alphabet Soup

The First Bedroom

Lifting and Lowering the Lid

Reduco Redux

From Decay to DK

From DK to P and Q

or, the Smile of the Satisfied Host

9 Faking Freud

On the Case

All Except One Guest

When It Happened

10 Cat and Mouse

Return of the Rope

He Knows, He Knows, He Knows, He Knows

11 Arrest Indicated

Up Close and Personal

Opening the Window

Reworking Poulenc

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438484174

1438484178

OCLC:

1258218079