Hi all,
Yes this question about Hitchcock seems a vexed one to some and a no brainer to others. One thing for certain, H. was a technical
innovator and in a technical form this is significant, the travelling close up, the dolly in zoom back, the stuff he learned at
UFA and then perfected with Selznick et al. really has to be taken seriously. And there is a specific form of the mise en scene
that is peculiar to him, the haunting scene in the graveyard in Vertigo for instance. Of course the other significant thing about
H. is his willingness to speak about his art, this is immensely useful to all film scholars in as much as it tantalises the idea
of authorship. Incidentally, I think Hawks is as important as H. in terms of his development of a particular form of narrative
construction.
Peace
alan
A. Fair
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