Robert P. Kolker
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The Extraordinary Image
Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema
Rutgers University Press
The Extraordinary Image takes readers on a fascinating journey through the lives and films of three great directors—Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick—seeking to identify the qualities that made them cinematic visionaries. Offering a deeply personal set of reflections on three artists who have changed the way he understands movies, acclaimed scholar Robert P. Kolker leads readers on an exploration of how movies work, what they mean, and why they bring us so much pleasure.
- Copyright year: 2016
Triumph over Containment
American Film in the 1950s
Rutgers University Press
Triumph Over Containment offers an uncompromising look at some of the greatest films and directors of the 1950s, from household names like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick to lesser-known iconoclasts like Samuel Fuller and Ida Lupino. It scours a variety of different genres to find pockets of resistance to the repressive and oppressive norms of Cold War culture.
- Copyright year: 2022
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