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Title: Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood ISBN: 0-231-12695-6 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Occasionally insightful and obscure at the same time
Comment: Wood's seminal book was first published in 1966 and he has revised it since then on a number of occasions. This latest revision allows Wood to revisit his past and comment on both his acute observations on Hitchcock's films and comment some of the sillier concepts that dotted the original book as well. It's appropriate that Wood cites Freud as often as he does; Hitchcock was fascinated with psychoanalysis and it figures significantly in a number of films in one form or another. On the other hand, Wood also revisits many of the same films in the newer material and while the observations are always interesting, they are, at best just as overblown as some of his original inflated claims for Hitchcock as well.
Hitchcock's Films still stands as an essential read for Hitchcock fans and film students but much of what Wood has to say should be taken with a grain of salt. Wood frequently becomes so anayltical that he loses touch with the power and joy in Hitchcock's craft. Hitchcock's films are as much about his technique as they are about the themes that fascinated him. Hitchcock's Films isn't a bad book; it's a book that needs to be read by someone who has already developed enough critical skills to recognize when the author's arguements have become as full of hot air as a balloon.
Like all the hyperbole written about an important artistic figure, Wood's book has a number of noteable insights but, again, he reads more into the material than is there sometimes. I much prefer Patrick McGilligan's fine biography of Hitchcock. McGilligan manages to mix his observations with comments from people who actually were involved in the making of the films. We get insight from the artist's that collaborated with Hitchcock vs. second hand observations from someone sitting in a darkened cinema.
Rating: 2
Summary: Predigested Platitudes
Comment: Occasional insights obscured by thickets of doctrinaire Freudianism. Let the reader beware!
Rating: 1
Summary: Long winded trype!
Comment: I couldnt even get past the first chapter of this god-awful book. Full of homo-this and homo-that it just became a total and utter bore to read in 10 minutes. No talk of craft or anything constructive - beware!
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Title: The Women Who Knew Too Much by Tania Modleski ISBN: 0415901766 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto ISBN: 030680932X Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: HITCHCOCK (REVISED EDITION) by Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut ISBN: 0671604295 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism by Paula Marantz Cohen ISBN: 0813108500 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Hitchcock Reader by Marshall Deutelbaum, Leland Poague, Marshall Deutebaum ISBN: 0813808928 Publisher: Iowa State University Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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