In A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director's workâits variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating familiarity with the director's work, Pomerance shines light upon six films, some of them (Notorious, The Lady Vanishes, and The Trouble with Harry) frequently, even obsessively treated, and others (Frenzy, The Wrong Man, and Topaz) less often discussed. In its strange relation to speech, memory, urbanity, guilt, mortality, and espionage, silence becomes, in these films, a dramatic protagonist in its own right. Written by a master interpreter of Hitchcock, this book offers new ways of seeing, experiencing, and thinking about the films of one of cinema's greatest artists, as well as new ways of reflecting on our experience of cinema itself.
- ISBN10 1438491875
- ISBN13 9781438491875
- Publish Date 1 February 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint State University of New York Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 372
- Language English