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The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
No full textThe thesis uses close textual analysis to study and evaluate the television work of Alfred Hitchcock. The corpus consists of the twenty shows personally directed by Hitchcock, including his appearances before and after those shows. In response to most previous writing, which tends to compare the programmes with Hitchcock’s films (often unfairly) the thesis emphasises them as products of television. Programmes are evaluated on the basis of their perceived success as television- if they harness conditions related to television production and integrate them with narrative themes or to create meaning. Hitchcock is considered to be the major creative force in each programme.
Chapter One provides a variety of important contexts including a brief history of US television of the 1950s, key literature on Hitchcock and analyses of contemporaneous programmes not directed by Hitchcock. The textual analysis chapters (2-8) consider aesthetic or thematic programme aspects. Chapter Two studies the various roles played by Hitchcock’s appearances as series host. Chapter Three considers the impact of censorship on programmes frequently dealing with murder, violence and insanity. Chapter Four analyses Hitchcock’s implementation of varieties of voice-over narration, a common device in short dramatic forms. Chapter Five studies Hitchcock’s use of point-of-view shots, particularly in relation to their role in the delivery of the narrative twist. Chapter Six considers the key Hitchcock theme of detachment from the world. Chapter Seven looks at moments from the programmes which demonstrate how aesthetic is influenced by television production conditions.
Hitchcock created a number of television masterpieces. His achievements in television are in many ways comparable in quality and consistency to his theatrical films. Even when considered in the context of other 1950s US anthology dramas, the Hitchcock-directed programmes are superior on many levels. Elements of his film style were highly suited to television production. Many of his greatest achievements embrace and harness television production conditions in their presentation strategies to create an integration of style and meaning
Atlas historique : l. L'Antiquité, par L. Delaporte, E. Drioton, A. Piganiol et R. Cohen
No full textMerlin Alfred. Atlas historique : l. L'Antiquité, par L. Delaporte, E. Drioton, A. Piganiol et R. Cohen. In: Journal des savants, Juillet-août 1938. p. 181
Alfred Cohen -- An American Artist in Europe:Between Figuration and Abstraction
No full textFirst book on the painter Alfred Cohen (1920-2001), published for his centenary to accompany 4 exhibitions, the first in King's College London's Arcade in Bush House from 16 March 2020.Includes a four-part biographical introduction to Cohen's life and work by Max Saunders
Les langues du monde, par un groupe de linguistes, sous la direction de A. Meillet et Marcel Cohen
No full textErnout Alfred. Les langues du monde, par un groupe de linguistes, sous la direction de A. Meillet et Marcel Cohen. In: Journal des savants, Janvier 1926. pp. 39-41
Clio, introduction aux études historiques, a : La Grèce et l'hellénisation du monde antique, par R. Cohen, 1934
No full textMerlin Alfred. Clio, introduction aux études historiques, a : La Grèce et l'hellénisation du monde antique, par R. Cohen, 1934. In: Journal des savants, Mars-avril 1935. pp. 87-88
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism
No full textThis provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock\u27s long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock\u27s best films—Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho—as well as some of his more uneven ones—Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz—and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society.
Drawing on a number of methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorian-style gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film. Cohen sees Hitchcock\u27s films as developing, in part, as a masculine response to the domestic, psychological novels that had appealed primarily to women during the Victorian era. His career, she argues, can be seen as an attempt to balance the two faces of Victorianism : the masculine legacy of law and hierarchy and the feminine legacy of feeling and imagination.
Also central to her thesis is the Victorian model of the nuclear family and its permutations, especially the father-daughter dyad. She postulates a fundamental dynamic in Hitchcock\u27s films, what she calls a daughter\u27s effect, and relates it to the social role of the family as an institution and to Hitchcock\u27s own relationship with his daughter, Patricia, who appeared in three of his films.
Cohen argues that Hitchcock\u27s films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends. She charts his development from his British period through his classic Hollywood years into his later phase, tracing a conceptual evolution that corresponds to an evolution in cultural identity—one that builds on a Victorian inheritance and ultimately discards it.
Paula Marantz Cohen, professor of humanities and communications at Drexel University, is the author of The Daughter\u27s Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel.
A valuable contribution to Hitchcock studies. —Choice
Cohen knows her movies and moviemaking techniques. . . . This is a fun, learned, and provocative book, especially for Hitchcock buffs. —Rapporthttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/1010/thumbnail.jp
A subdivision scheme for continuous-scale B-splines and affine invariant progressive
No full textCaption title.Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-22).Partially supported by the Rothschild Foundation-Yad Hanadiv. Partially supported by the Army Research Office. DAAL03-92-G-0115Guillermo Sapiro, Albert Cohen, Alfred M. Bruckstein
Anxious, Dismal, Giddy, Aggressive: Seth Kim-Cohen interviewed by Mark Peter Wright for Ear Room.
No full textA conversation with author Seth Kim-Cohen
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