Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie by Raubicheck, Walter
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie by Raubicheck, Walter

Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie

Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the...
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Author: Walter Raubicheck
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Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie by Raubicheck, Walter

Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie

BD$62.83
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie by Raubicheck, Walter

Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, the Birds, and Marnie

BD$62.83
Author: Walter Raubicheck
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie. Drawing from extensive interviews with the screenwriters and other film technicians who worked for Hitchcock, Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick illustrate how much of the filmmaking process took place not on the set or in front of the camera, but in the adaptation of the sources, the mutual creation of plot and characters by the director and the writers, and the various revisions of the written texts of the films.

Hitchcock allowed his writers a great deal of creative freedom, which resulted in dynamic screenplays that expanded traditional narrative and defied earlier conventions. Critically examining the question of authorship in film, Raubicheck and Srebnick argue that Hitchcock did establish visual and narrative priorities for his writers, but his role in the writing process was that of an editor. While the writers and their contributions have generally been underappreciated, this study reveals that all the dialogue and much of the narrative structure of the films were the work of screenwriters Jay Presson Allen, Joseph Stefano, and Evan Hunter. The writers also shaped American cultural themes into material specifically for actors such as Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, and Tony Perkins. This volume gives due credit to those writers who gave narrative form to Hitchcock's filmic vision.



Author: Walter Raubicheck, Walter Srebnick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780252078248


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About the Author
Walter Raubicheck is a professor of English at Pace University and the coeditor of Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture.Walter Srebnick is Professor Emeritus of English at Pace University and the coeditor of Hitchcock's Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo.
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