The camera lies : acting for Hitchcock / by Dan Callahan.
2020
PN1998.3.H58 C34 2020
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Title
The camera lies : acting for Hitchcock / by Dan Callahan.
Author
Callahan, Dan, 1977- author.
ISBN
9780197515358 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PN1998.3.H58 C34 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.43028
Summary
Though he was known for saying, "Actors are cattle," Alfred Hitchcock had highly specific ideas about film acting, which he saw in terms of contrast and counterpoint. Hitchcock was a theorist of acting, which he proved in some of his lesser-known 1930s interviews, and he has not been given his due as a director of actors. He felt that the camera was duplicitous and that it could be made to lie, and so he loved his actors to look one way and to be another, or to do one thing and suggest another. The best Hitchcock actor was one, the Master said, who could "do nothing well," to which he always added that this was actually difficult to do. This book will analyse actors in Hitchcock films, exploring what acting for Hitchcock entailed and what acting is and can be in the cinema.
Note
Though he was known for saying, "Actors are cattle," Alfred Hitchcock had highly specific ideas about film acting, which he saw in terms of contrast and counterpoint. Hitchcock was a theorist of acting, which he proved in some of his lesser-known 1930s interviews, and he has not been given his due as a director of actors. He felt that the camera was duplicitous and that it could be made to lie, and so he loved his actors to look one way and to be another, or to do one thing and suggest another. The best Hitchcock actor was one, the Master said, who could "do nothing well," to which he always added that this was actually difficult to do. This book will analyse actors in Hitchcock films, exploring what acting for Hitchcock entailed and what acting is and can be in the cinema.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780197515327
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