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Title: Introduction
Author/Creator: Boyd, David
Institution: The Unviersity of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: The half century or so of Alfred Hitchcock’s career spanned crucial eras in the history of world and, especially, Hollywood cinema: from the refinement of the silents’ ability to tell feature-length stories with images in the years before the coming of sound; to the reconfiguring of film style necessitated by the conversion to “talking pictures” a few years later; to the refinements, both narrative and visual, made in the so-called Classic Hollywood text during the 1930s and 40s; to the advent in the next decade of wide-screen cinematography (which required further adjustments to “corporate” techniques); to the industry’s accommodation with its erstwhile rival, television; to the changes in the marketplace that followed in the wake of the weakening and eventual abandonment of the Production Code in 1966.
Relation: After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality p. 1-11
Relation: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exboyaft.html
Date: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keyword(s): Alfred Hitchcock; Hollywood cinema; silent films; wide-screen cinematography
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923697
Identifier: ISBN:9780292713376

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