{"product_id":"hitchcock-second-edition-william-rothman-9781438443171","title":"Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most controversial--film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1982, William Rothman's \u003ci\u003eHitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the films to illustrate and back up its critical claims, the book follows six different Hitchcock films as they unfold, moment by moment, from first shot to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to a thoughtful new preface and the original readings of \u003ci\u003eThe Lodger\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), \u003ci\u003eMurder!\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), \u003ci\u003eThe 39 Steps\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), \u003ci\u003eShadow of a Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e (1943), and \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), this expanded edition includes a groundbreaking new chapter-now the book's longest-on \u003ci\u003eMarnie\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), Hitchcock's most heartfelt yet most controversial film. Hitchcock never tired of quoting Oscar Wilde's line, \"And all men kill the thing they love.\" Dark moods therefore prevail in the five original chapters, culminating in the reading of \u003ci\u003ePsycho\u003c\/i\u003e, but in demonstrating how \u003ci\u003eMarnie\u003c\/i\u003e overcomes, or transcends, the murderous aspect of Hitchcock's art, this new chapter balances the scales and gives an important new dimension to the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith exemplary precision, \u003ci\u003eHitchcock, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Hitchcock films express, cinematically, serious thoughts about such matters as the nature and relationships of love, murder, sexuality, marriage, and theater-and about their own medium. In so doing, it keeps faith with the idea that Hitchcock was a master, perhaps \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e master, of what he called the \"art of pure cinema.\" However, insofar as it investigates philosophically the \u003ci\u003econditions\u003c\/i\u003e of authorship in the medium of film, it is an auteurist study unlike any other. By attending to the films themselves and to the ways we experience them, rather than allowing some theory to dictate what to say about them, the book proves the fruitfulness of an approach that is open and responsive to the ways serious films are capable of teaching us how to think seriously about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Rothman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 143844317X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438443171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.30d","brand":"William Rothman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449595310335,"sku":"9781438443171","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45aae47f-4b3b-4261-a743-85f120b5eb71.jpg?v=1777264087","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hitchcock-second-edition-william-rothman-9781438443171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}