Published by Salisbury State College, Salisbury, Maryland, 1975
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have fading at spine, address label on back, general light handling wear. ; Contents: Sobchack, Genre film: a classical experience. Atkins, Agatha Christie and the etective film: a timetable for success. Anderegg, Conrad and Hitchcock: The Scret Agent inspires Sabotage. Simper, Poe, Hitchcock, and the well-wrought effect. McDougal, Mirth, sexuality and suspense: Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of The Thirty-Nine steps. Oliver, The Long Goodbye and Chinatown: debunking the private eye tradition. McGInnis, Chinatown: Roman Polanski's contemporary Oedipus story. Documents of film theory: Ricciotto Canudo's "Manifesto of the Seven Arts." Eidsvik, Toward a "Politique des Adaptations." McWIlliams, The novelist as filmmaker, Maruerite Duras' Destroy, She Said. Fiore, The picaresque tradition in Midnight Cowboy. Jorgens, The opening scene of Polanski's Macbeth. Reviews. Film notes and queries. ; 9.0" tall; 94 pages.