Hitchcock's Stars: Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio SystemRowman & Littlefield, 14 cze 2023 - 247 Although he was a visual stylist who once referred to actors as cattle, Alfred Hitchcock also had a remarkable talent for innovative and creative casting choices. The director launched the careers of several actors and completely changed the trajectory of others, many of whom created some of the most iconic screen performances in history. However, Hitchcock’s ability to fit his leading men and women into just the right parts has been a largely overlooked aspect of his filmmaking skills. In Hitchcock’s Stars: Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood Studio System, Lesley L. Coffin looks at how the director made the most of the actors who were at his disposal for several decades. From his first American production in 1940 to his final feature in 1976, Hitchcock’s films were examples of creative casting that strayed far from the norm during the structured Hollywood star system. Rather than examining the cinematic aspects of his work, this book explores the collaboration the director engaged in with some of the most |
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... loved to delight in. Oddly, upon introduction to Sanders, it was assumed that he would be an ideal “hero” for his tall build, soft features, and personal polish (high living was a vice he was well known for, especially good suits and ...
... loved to delight in. Oddly, upon introduction to Sanders, it was assumed that he would be an ideal “hero” for his tall build, soft features, and personal polish (high living was a vice he was well known for, especially good suits and ...
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... love with Cary Grant's Johnnie. In Rebecca, Hitchcock wanted her to be an empty vessel for the audience, but in Suspicion, Lina had to be a full character, for the film is told entirely from her perspective, and the audience's ...
... love with Cary Grant's Johnnie. In Rebecca, Hitchcock wanted her to be an empty vessel for the audience, but in Suspicion, Lina had to be a full character, for the film is told entirely from her perspective, and the audience's ...
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... love. . . . English countryside into a young woman whose attractive possibilities blossom Priscilla Lane's best scene in Saboteur(1942) was opposite Norman Lloyd,. in the character of Lina Aysgarth, a part which enables her to carry on ...
... love. . . . English countryside into a young woman whose attractive possibilities blossom Priscilla Lane's best scene in Saboteur(1942) was opposite Norman Lloyd,. in the character of Lina Aysgarth, a part which enables her to carry on ...
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... love. . . . She maintains a fine balance in portraying the anguish of a woman weighing the love for her husband and what she knows is right, against what she has been taught is wrong.9 The film deservedly won Fontaine the best actress ...
... love. . . . She maintains a fine balance in portraying the anguish of a woman weighing the love for her husband and what she knows is right, against what she has been taught is wrong.9 The film deservedly won Fontaine the best actress ...
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... love interest in the troubled film The MagnificentAmbersons. He was in the process of building a film career when cast in Shadow ofa Doubt but was still far from a major name or leading man; he entered Shadow ofa Doubt without an ...
... love interest in the troubled film The MagnificentAmbersons. He was in the process of building a film career when cast in Shadow ofa Doubt but was still far from a major name or leading man; he entered Shadow ofa Doubt without an ...
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Ch07 Lifeboat | 48 |
Ch08 Spellbound | 54 |
Ch18 To Catch a Thief | 109 |
Ch19 The Trouble with Harry | 114 |
Ch20 The Man Who Knew Too Much | 121 |
Ch21 The Wrong Man | 126 |
Ch22 Vertigo | 133 |
Ch23 North by Northwest | 140 |
Ch24 Psycho | 147 |
Ch25 The Birds | 154 |
Ch09 Notorious | 59 |
Ch10 The Paradine Case | 65 |
Ch11 Rope | 70 |
Ch12 Under Capricorn | 77 |
Ch13 Stage Fright | 83 |
Ch14 Strangers on a Train | 88 |
Ch15 I Confess | 94 |
Ch16 Dial M for Murder | 100 |
Ch17 Rear Window | 105 |
Ch26 Marnie | 163 |
Ch27 Torn Curtain | 174 |
Ch28 Family Plot | 182 |
Hitchcocks Influence | 191 |
Notes | 195 |
Filmography | 216 |
Index | 225 |
About the Author | 231 |
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