[Commlist] New book: One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen

Luke Robinson and Melanie Robson are very excited to announce that /One 
Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the Screen 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-shot-hitchcock-9780197682883?lang=en&cc=au>/ has 
been published by Oxford University Press.

The edited volume includes chapters by Charles Barr, Jodi Brooks, Megan 
Carrigy, Tom Gunning, Helen Hughes, Bruce Isaacs, Julian Murphet, Luke 
Robinson, Melanie Robson, Martin P. Rossouw, Sebastian Smoliński, Noa 
Steimatsky, Sarah Street, Domietta Torlasco, and Susana Viegas. There is 
also an introduction by Luke Robinson and Melanie Robson.

Here is some information on the book:


In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies 
has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the 
director's work. Adding to this pattern of innovation, the edited 
collection /One Shot Hitchcock: A Contemporary Approach to the 
Screen/ utilizes formal analysis to interrogate key single shots from 
across Alfred Hitchcock's long career. This collection reveals the value 
of analyzing the single shot - within this small, cinematic unit is a 
code that unlocks a series of revelations about cinema as an artistic 
practice and a theoretical study. Each chapter examines one shot from a 
single film, beginning with /The Lodger/ (1927) and ending with /Frenzy 
/(1972).

If Hitchcock is known as a director of suspense films and films about 
murder, the shots discussed in /One Shot Hitchcock/ are his crime 
scenes. These are the shots that resist being forgotten, that repeatedly 
demand to be investigated, in which Hitchcock's influence on aesthetics 
and culture is at its most acute. Each chapter uses a different lens of 
film analysis - transnationalism, gender and sexuality, performance, 
history, affect, intermediality, remake studies, philosophy, and film 
form are all used to interrogate single shots. In these essays, the 
single shot from Hitchcock's film not only illustrates the approach in 
question but also demonstrates how the single shot encourages us to 
rethink our approaches to the screen. By reinvigorating a close formal 
mode of analysis, /One Shot Hitchcock/ asks readers to think differently 
about film, offering a renewed assessment of Hitchcock's oeuvre in the 
process.

Endorsements:

“This excellent and compelling collection of essays, all of which center 
on singular and iconic moments in Hitchcock’s oeuvre, provides an 
innovative approach to reading images embedded in our cultural 
consciousness. Once again, the complexity and brilliance of Hitchcock’s 
filmic mind is made apparent, but this book does not shy away from 
discussing difficult and controversial issues with regard to our love 
for this ‘master’ of cinematic form.”

—ANNA BACKMAN ROGERS, Professor of Aesthetics, Culture, and Feminist 
Theory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

“Asserting the supremacy of the singular shot in Hitchcock’s visual 
vocabulary, while offering plural takes on a spectrum of his films, One 
Shot Hitchcock is a prismatic view of film scholarship today. The volume 
makes room for historians and philosophers, emerging and established 
voices, proving that writing on Hitchcock remains a gold standard in the 
field.”

—PATRICIA WHITE, author of /Rebecca/ (BFI Film Classics)


Please see here for more information on the book, including chapter 
titles: 
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-shot-hitchcock-9780197682883?lang=en&cc=au 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-shot-hitchcock-9780197682883?lang=en&cc=au>


There is also a launch discount code at global.oup.com 
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-shot-hitchcock-9780197682883?lang=en&cc=au>: 
at checkout use *AAFLYG6 for a 30% discount*. While in some locations it 
appears that the book is not yet published on the OUP website, OUP 
assures us that the paperback is available to be ordered.

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