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The Paradigm Case

The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock’s cinema – a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence – represents more than the spectre of a supposedly dead art form: it transcends its own filmic and institutional contexts, becoming an important audio-visual lexicon of desire, loss, mystery and suspense. Through a detailed study of the Hitchcock-related work of artist-filmmakers Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Johan Grimonprez, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon and Atom Egoyan, this book facilitates a dialogue between the creative appropriation of Hitchcock’s films and the cinematic practices that increasingly inform the wider field of the contemporary visual arts. Each chapter is structured around a consideration of how the artwork in question has reconfigured or ‘remade’ key Hitchcockian expressive elements and motifs – in particular, the relationship between and the mechanics of suspense, time, memory, history and death. In a career that extended across silent and sound eras as well as the British, European and Hollywood industries, Hitchcock’s film œuvre can be seen as a history of the cinema itself. As the work of these contemporary artist-filmmakers shows, it was also a history of the future, a paradigm case par excellence.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-0343-1780-1 / 978-3034317801 / 9783034317801

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2015

Seiten: 318

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Bernard McCarron
Reihe herausgegeben von J. Barrie Bullen

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