Analyzes a variety of motion pictures which use innovative techniques, challenge the audience's opinions, and explore social and political issues
Robert Phillip Kolker Books
Robert Kolker, Professor Emeritus, dedicated nearly 50 years to teaching film studies. His work delves into profound existential themes, exploring how cinematic creations reflect and shape human loneliness. Through meticulous analysis of characters and narratives, he uncovers the complex psychology of individuals and their solitude within the surrounding environments. His approach is characterized by a focus on visual language and symbolism, lending his works a deep resonant potential.
Alfred Hitchcock's A Casebook collects some of the finest essays on this groundbreaking film--a film that is ideal for teaching the language of cinema and the ways in which strong filmmakers can break Hollywood conventions. Psycho is a film that can be used to present the structures of composition and cutting, narrative and genre building, and point of view. The film is also a highpoint of the horror genre and an instigator of all the slasher films to come in its wake. The essays in the casebook cover all of these elements and more. They also serve another presented chronologically, they represent the changes in the methodologies of film criticism, from the first journalist reviews and early auteurist approaches, through current psychoanalytic and gender criticism. Other selections include an analysis of Bernard Hermann's score and its close relationship to Hitchcock's visual construction; the famous Hitchcock interview by François Truffaut; and an essay byRobert Kolker that, through the use of stills taken directly from the film, closely reads its extraordinary cinematic structure. Contributors include Robert Kolker, Stephen Rebello, Bosley Crowther, Jean Douchet, Robin Wood, Raymond Durgnat, Royal S. Brown, George Toles, Robert Samuels, and Linda Williams.
Allein im Licht
- 637 pages
- 23 hours of reading