Hitchcock and the Spy Film
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Word Count
86,500 words, Guess
Page Count
346 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781780768441
- ISBN-101780768443
- OCLC Control Number1010703471
- Better World Books9781780768441
- Open LibraryOL37250422M
Classifications
- LCCPN1998.3
- LCCPN1998.3.H58 C43 2018
Description
"Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest, Torn Curtain and his unmade film The Short Night. Chapman's close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political and cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s to the atom spies and double agents of the post-war world."--Jacket flap.
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