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The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema

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Description for The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema Paperback. .
Welles. Hitchcock. Kubrick. These names appear on nearly every list of the all-time greatest filmmakers. But what makes these directors so great? Despite their very different themes and sensibilities, is there a common genius that unites them and elevates their work into the realm of the sublime? The Extraordinary Image takes readers on a fascinating journey through the lives and films of these three directors, identifying the qualities that made them cinematic visionaries. Reflecting on a lifetime of teaching and writing on these filmmakers, acclaimed film scholar Robert P. Kolker offers a deeply personal set of insights on three artists who have changed the way he understands movies. Spotlighting the many astonishing images and stories in films by Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, he also considers how they induce a state of amazement that transports and transforms the viewer. Kolker's accessible prose invites readers to share in his own continued fascination and delight at these directors' visual inventiveness, even as he lends his expertise to help us appreciate the key distinctions between the unique cinematic universes they each created. More than just a celebration of three cinematic geniuses, The Extraordinary Image is an exploration of how movies work, what they mean, and why they bring us so much pleasure.

Product Details

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Brunswick, NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813583099
SKU
V9780813583099
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About Robert Phillip Kolker
Robert P. Kolker has been teaching and writing about film for over forty years. He is the author or editor of A Cinema of Loneliness (4th ed.,); The Altering Eye; Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays; The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies; The Cultures of American Film; and Film, Form, and Culture.

Reviews for The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema
For a book of criticism, [The Extraordinary Image] is wonderfully accessible, less like a lecture and closer to a conversation. [Kolker's] observations reflect both the consensus of critical thought on these films, and his personal connections to the images ... this collective study adds a distinctive tone that will make this of interest to fans of any of these filmmakers. -Library Journal [The Extraordinary Image] is littered with keen observations readily savored. - Boston Review Kolker ingeniously brings together three dissimilar filmmakers - Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick - and deftly manages to make them convincing subjects of a comparative study... [He] writes with such fluency and grace about these filmmakers that he makes the feat of discussing their quite distinct and challenging respective oeuvres seem easy... Kolker's study makes one hungry to experience its subjects' creativity anew, inspiring one to revisit the oeuvres of three great, distinctive, and distinct filmmakers whose bodies of work, as Kolker persuasively argues, converge in the creation of lasting and, indeed, extraordinary images. - Cineaste The most refreshing quality of The Extraordinary Image is its respect for the humanist tradition. Kolker's bottom-line insistence on the deeply rooted humanity of the greatest cinema is invigorating, especially when he connects his emotions about movies with his longtime effort to share his insights and enthusiasms with students and readers. -Alfred Hitchcock Annual

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