%0 Book
%A Bernard McCarron
%D 2015
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783035307504
%T The Paradigm Case
%B The Cinema of Hitchcock and the Contemporary Visual Arts
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0750-4
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053343
%X 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.
%K Alfred Hitchcock, classical cinema, mystery, suspense, art gallery, Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet, Douglas Gordon, Atom Egoyan, artist-filmmakers, Johan Grimonprez, Pierre Huyghe
%G English