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Barr, Charles
by Vertigo
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0851709184
- ISBN 13
- 9780851709185
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About This Item
London. 2003. British Film Institute. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0851709184. 96 pages. paperback. . keywords: Film. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the 1992 Sight and Sound poll critics and film-makers voted Vertigo, the fourth greatest film of all time. Released in 1958, Hitchcock's masterpiece is a pinnacle of the cinema. Yet in it Hitchcock abandoned his trademark suspense, allowing the central mystery to be solved halfway through. What remained was a study in sexual obsession, as James Stewart's Scottie pursues Madeleine/Judy (Kim Novak) to her death in a remote Californian mission. Novak is ice-cool but vulnerable, Stewart - in the darkest role of his career - genial on the surface but damaged within. Though it seems to many to be Hitchcock's most personal film, Charles Barr argues that, like Citizen Kane, Vertigo is a triumph not so much of individual authorship as of creative collaboration. Barr documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor and by a combination of textual and contextual analysis explores the reasons why Vertigo has come to exert such a continuing fascination both on general audiences and on a wide range of critics and theorists. inventory #34782 ISBN: 0851709184.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34782
- Title
- Barr, Charles
- Author
- Vertigo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0851709184
- ISBN 13
- 9780851709185
- Publisher
- British Film Institute
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- May 1, 2002
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...