Hitchcock Becomes Hitchcock: The British Years - Softcover

Jensen, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887664882 ISBN 13: 9781887664882

Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, 2009

Synopsis

Alfred Hitchcock’s comments in his frequent interviews have encouraged many critics to assume that the director’s true career began in 1934 with The Man Who Knew Too Much, the first in a long, almost unbroken string of thrillers. Then, having defined Hitchcock as a specialist, these critics select from his earlier work only those films that anticipate his later career: The Lodger (1927), Blackmail (1929), Murder! (1930), and Number Seventeen (1932). Such a perspective, mired in the confidence of hindsight, results in a highly misleading view of the director, one that dismisses his 12 other early features—eight silent and four sound—and implies that he was merely marking time until his “true” creative personality emerged. Hitchcock was, in fact, a major director from the very start of his career in 1925 and for 10 years he made substantial, mature features that reveal an impressive consistency in content and form. This book examines those all important films.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul M. Jensen is a Professor at the State University of New York at Oneonta. A member of the Communications Arts Department, he teaches courses in film history, appreciation and production. After graduating from SUNY—Albany, Mr. Jensen received his M.F.A. in Film, Radio and Television from Columbia University. He is the author of four books—The Cinema of Fritz Lang (1969), Boris Karloff and His Films (1974), The Men Who Made the Monsters (1996) and Hitchcock Becomes “HITCHCOCK” and has published articles on film-related subjects in various periodicals, including Film Comment, Films in Review, Midnight Marquee, Scarlet Street, Variety and Video Watchdog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1887664882
• ISBN 13: 9781887664882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228