The Paradigm Case

The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts

Bernard McCarron

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English

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
29 September 2015

The Arts: General & Reference; Photography & photographs; Theatre Studies; Communication studies

Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts

With the migration of cinema into the art gallery, artists have been turning, with remarkable regularity and ingenuity, to Alfred Hitchcock-related images, sequences and iconography. The world of Hitchcock’s cinema – a classical cinema of formal unities and narrative coherence – represents more than the spectre of a supposedly dead art form: it transcends its own filmic and institutional contexts, becoming an important audio-visual lexicon of desire, loss, mystery and suspense.

Through a detailed study of the Hitchcock-related work of artist-filmmakers Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Johan Grimonprez, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon and Atom Egoyan, this book facilitates a dialogue between the creative appropriation of Hitchcock’s films and the cinematic practices that increasingly inform the wider field of the contemporary visual arts. Each chapter is structured around a consideration of how the artwork in question has reconfigured or ‘remade’ key Hitchcockian expressive elements and motifs – in particular, the relationship between mise en scène and the mechanics of suspense, time, memory, history and death. In a career that extended across silent and sound eras as well as the British, European and Hollywood industries, Hitchcock’s film œuvre can be seen as a history of the cinema itself. As the work of these contemporary artist-filmmakers shows, it was also a history of the future, a paradigm case par excellence.

By: Bernard McCarron
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 36
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9783034317801
ISBN 10: 3034317808
Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 29 September 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Mapping the Field of Hitchcockian Appropriation – Found Footage in Flames: Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet’s Phoenix Tapes – The Essay-Film (Expanded): Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take – Horror in Real-Time: Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho – Participatory Remaking: Pierre Huyghe’s Remake – Screening Memory: Atom Egoyan’s Evidence / Felicia’s Journey.

Bernard McCarron holds a PhD in Film Studies from Queen’s University Belfast, where he is currently a lecturer. While he has written extensively on the international influence of expressionist film outside Germany, his main research interests include the afterlife of cinema and its legacy in the digital age.