The art of pure cinema : Hitchcock and his imitators / Bruce Isaacs.

Author: Isaacs, Bruce, author.

ImprintNew York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Description256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Note:Pure cinema in context -- Hitchcock's interlocutors -- The part is greater than the whole: toward an aesthetic philosophy of the fragment -- The fragmented frame 1: expression, abstraction, schematization -- Intensified schematics: Bava, Argento, and De Palma's Body double -- The fragmented frame 2: segmentation -- Music you can hear: toward an abstract soundscape.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240), filmography (pages 241-243) and index.

Note:In The Art of Pure Cinema, Bruce Isaacs reexamines Alfred Hitchcock's filmography through the lens of what Hitchcock termed "the purest expression of a cinematic idea," and investigates whether or not Hitchcock actually achieved this ideal of pure cinema over his long and storied career.

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