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Hitchcock and the spy film

Chapman, James 1968- (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 1780768443
  • ISBN: 9781780768441
  • ISBN: 1786723077
  • ISBN: 9781786723079
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)
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  • Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018.

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Subject: Hitchcock, Alfred -- 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hitchcock, Alfred -- 1899-1980
Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain
Motion picture producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles
Spy films -- Great Britain
Spy films -- United States
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Grande-Bretagne
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Films d'espionnage -- Grande-Bretagne
Films d'espionnage -- États-Unis
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference
Motion picture producers and directors
Spy films
California -- Los Angeles
Great Britain
United States
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