The Extraordinary Image : : Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema / / Robert P. Kolker.

Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and sensibilities, is there a common genius that unites them and elevates their work into the realm of the sublime? Th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 50 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prelude
  • The Passion of Film
  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Film
  • The Body of Work
  • Origins
  • The Films They Made
  • The Work of the Body
  • Hunger Artists
  • Apollo, Dionysus, and Nemesis
  • Embodiment and Performance
  • Form, Time, and Space
  • Spatial Illusions
  • Conventional Spaces
  • Against Realism
  • Touch of Evil and Psycho
  • Labyrinths, Lost Time, Dying Falls
  • Hitchcock and the Abyss
  • The Dreamworld
  • The Spaces of Space Fiction
  • Cycles and Symmetry
  • Photograph of a Photograph
  • Power and Sexuality
  • The Art of Feeling
  • Coda: An Immense Shadow
  • Chronology of Films by Welles, Hitchcock, and Kubrick
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index