Bibliograph

The wrong house, the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Jacobs

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The wrong house, the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Jacobs

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-335), filmography (pages 324-327), and index

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Second edition.

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wrong house

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

856579715

Responsibility statement

Steven Jacobs

Sub title

the architecture of Alfred Hitchcock

Summary

Architecture plays an important role In the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Steven Jacobs devotes lengthy discussion to a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans made specially for this book

Table Of Contents

1. Space fright : The art director vanishes: Hitchcock and production design ; Pure doorknob cinema: doors, windows, and stairs ; Family plots on single sets: cinematic confinement ; Torn curtains in rear windows: uncanny homes and gothic plots -- 2. The tourist who knew too much : City symphonies and cameos in the crowd: the suspense of urban modernity ; Montage of tourist attractions: Hitchcock's creative geography ; Sightseeing terror: metatourism and national monuments ; The trouble with museums: mausoleums of the gaze -- 3. Selected works: Hitchcock's domestic architecture : Houses : Under glass ceilings: Bunting House (The lodger) ; The old dark house: house number 17 (Number seventeen) ; Living behind the screen: Verloc House & Bijou Cinema (Sabotage) ; Bad dream house: Newton House (Shadow of a doubt) ; A comfortable little place: Wendice apartment (Dial M for murder) ; Kitchen sink claustrophobia: Balestrero House (The wrong man) ; Schizoid architecture: Bates house & Motel (Psycho) ; Living in a cage: Brenner House (The birds) ; Behind the jungle gym: Hayworth House (The birds) ; Childhood memories: Edgar House (Marnie) -- Country homes and mansions : Simple family life: Moat House (Easy virtue) ; Vitrivius Britannicus: Pengallan House (Jamaica Inn) ; Bluebeard's castle: Manderley (Rebecca) ; Design before the fact: Aysgarth House (Suspicion) ; Building above all suspicion: McLaidlaw House (Suspicion) ; Manhattan manners: Sutton House (Saboteur) ; Psycho-building: Green Manors (Spellbound) ; Nazi hominess: Sebastian House (Notorious) ; Unfathomable plans: Paradine House (The Paradine case) ; Bedroom of the picturesque: Hindley Hall (The Paradine case) ; Warm, cozy, and protective: Keane House (The Paradine case) ; Tropical classicism: Minyago Yugilla (Under Capricorn) ; The Oedipal bedroom: Anthony House (Strangers on a train) -- Modern hide-outs and look outs : Long-take architecture: Brandon-Phillip Penthouse (Rope) ; Architecture of the gaze: Jeffries apartment & courtyard (Rear window) ; The machine in the garden: Vandamm House (North by northwest) -- Appendix : Hitchcock's art directors

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Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock

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