Raymond Foery

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (eBook, ePUB)

The Last Masterpiece

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971, the depressed director traveled to London, the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood. The film he came to shoot there would mark a return to the style for which he had become known and would restore him to international acclaim. Like The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest before, Frenzy repeated the classic Hitchcock trope of a man on the run from the police while chasing down the real criminal. But unlike those previous works, Frenzy also featured some elements that were new to the master of suspense's films, including explicit nudity, depraved behavior, and a brutal act that would challenge Psycho's shower scene for the most disturbing depiction of violence in a Hitchcock film. In Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Raymond Foery recounts the history-writing, preprod

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810877566
• Artikelnr.: 39150451

Autorenporträt

Raymond Foery is professor of communications at Quinnipiac University and founder of their media production program. He also founded and edited a New York arts journal, The Downtown Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue: Over the Atlantic and Down the Thames
Chapter One: Hitchcock in 1970: The Lion in Waiting
Chapter Two: Property Values: The Hitchcock Standards and the First
"Frenzy"
Chapter Three: Working with Writers: Hitchcock and the Preparation of the
Scenario
Chapter Four: Working with Another Sleuth: Hitchcock and Anthony Shaffer
Chapter Five: Brief Inter-title: Looking for a Lost London
Chapter Six: Cattle Calls: Ruminating over a Cast
Chapter Seven: The 13-week Production: Mornings and Afternoons on the Set
Chapter Eight: Shooting the Signature Sequences, Part I: Hitchcock as a
Master of Montage
Chapter Nine: Shooting the Signature Sequences, Part II: Hitchcock as the
master of Mise-en-scene and the Moving Camera
Chapter Ten: Brief Inter-title: Looking for a Lost Partner OR "Hitchcock in
Love"
Chapter Eleven: Adventures in Post-production
Chapter Twelve: Releasing the Film: Creating a Frenzy around Frenzy
Chapter Thirteen: Critical Acclaim and Box-office Redemption
Chapter Fourteen: The Response from the Academy
Chapter Fifteen: Hitchcock and Women; Hitch and His Women
Chapter Sixteen: Forty Years Later
Postscript: Becoming Sir Alfred
Appendix A: Frenzy Cast and Crew
Appendix B: Frenzy Scene List
Works Cited
About the Author