Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Arrow
Release Date : 2021-04-15
ISBN 10 : 1784876771
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (876 users)
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Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Release Date : 2012-11-20
ISBN 10 : 9781551524832
Pages : 160 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (551 users)
Download Strangers on a Train PDF by Jonathan Goldberg Full Free and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing who wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing father. Together they enter into a murder plot that binds them to one another, with fatal consequences. This Queer Film Classic delves into the homoerotic energy of the film, especially between the two male characters (played by Farley Granger and Robert Walker). It builds on the question of the sexuality the film puts on view, not to ask whether either character is gay so much as to explore the queer relations between sexuality and murder and the strong antisocial impulses those relations represent. The book also includes a look at the making of the film and the critical controversies over Hitchcock's representations of male homosexuality. QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed film book series that launched in 2009. It features twenty-one of the most important and influential films about and/or by LGBTQ people, made in eight different countries between 1950 and 2005, and written by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics. Jonathan Goldberg is a professor at Emory University, where he directs the Studies in Sexualities program. He is the author of many books and editor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's posthumous 2012 book The Weather in Proust.
Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-06
ISBN 10 : 9780349004679
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (349 users)
Download Strangers on a Train PDF by Patricia Highsmith Full Free and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith's first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn. By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . . 'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?''' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
Author : Gans Kolins
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date : 2016-03-11
ISBN 10 : 9781329965041
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (329 users)
Download Strangers on a Train PDF by Gans Kolins Full Free and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was heart-rending. I had finished my meeting with a prospective customer and commuted back to my hometown trying to work a little on the train, but my attention, like everyone else's, was drawn to the young woman sitting on the other side of the aisle. She was averting her face, trying to look out of the window, but she was crying almost incessantly.
Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-01-19
ISBN 10 : 9780393867336
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (393 users)
Download Strangers on a Train: A Novel PDF by Patricia Highsmith Full Free and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." —Paula Hawkins Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.
Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Release Date : 2019-03-28
ISBN 10 : 9782808015677
Pages : 20 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (88 users)
Download Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (Book Analysis) PDF by Bright Summaries Full Free and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Strangers on a Train with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, which tells the story of two men whose lives become intertwined as a result of a chilling pact. Charles Anthony Bruno strikes up a conversation with the young architect Guy Haines and tells him that he can kill his wife, who he wants to divorce so that he can marry someone else, if Guy will kill Bruno’s father. Despite Guy’s reluctance, Bruno forges ahead with the scheme, drawing the two men ever deeper into a morass of guilt and paranoia. Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, and its film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock catapulted her to fame. Her reputation only grew with her subsequent novels, including the series of thrillers starring the charming murderer Tom Ripley. Find out everything you need to know about Strangers on a Train in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author : Jenny Diski
Publisher : Picador
Release Date : 2013-09-17
ISBN 10 : 9781466853089
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (466 users)
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Author : Craig Warner
Publisher :
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 057301972X
Pages : 70 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (19 users)
Download Strangers on a Train PDF by Craig Warner Full Free and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train. Because they're strangers they can say anything they like to one another. Bruno proposes the perfect murder: he will kill Guy's unfaithful wife if Guy will kill his much-hated father. Guy never imagines Bruno is serious. But Bruno is deadly serious.
Author : William Reynolds
Publisher : Popular Press
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 087972661X
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (726 users)
Download It's a Print! PDF by William Reynolds Full Free and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mechanistic age of the twentieth century has required a mechanized medium for expression: the production of filmdependent from the start on machines such as cameras, projectors, lights, and now more heavily reliant on computers, sensitive films, miniaturization, and sophisticated sound recording devices - has flowered in this century not only as a means of popular entertainment, but as a critically acclaimed art form. These essays highlight true cinematic adaptations as completely different products from films based loosely on the gimmick or plot or character of a certain fiction.
Author : Abbie Taylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-05-27
ISBN 10 : 9781476754970
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (476 users)
Download The Stranger on the Train PDF by Abbie Taylor Full Free and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother’s worst nightmare: the subway doors close with her baby son still on the train. In this suspenseful debut novel, a woman goes to unimaginable lengths to get her child back. A struggling, single mother, Emma sometimes wishes that her thirteen-month-old son Ritchie would just disappear. Then, one quiet Sunday evening, after a sinister encounter on the London Underground—Ritchie does just that. Emma immediately reports his abduction to the police but there she faces a much worse situation than she ever imagined. Why do the police seem so reluctant to help her? And why do they think she would want hurt her own child? If Emma wants Ritchie back, she’ll have to find him herself. With the help of a stranger named Rafe, the one person who seems to believe her, Emma sets off in search of her son. She is determined to find Ritchie no matter what it takes…but who exactly is the real enemy here? "A heart-stopper” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) with dark twists and intertwining narratives, The Stranger on the Train is an unforgettable, “first-rate debut thriller” (Washington Post) that you will keep you guessing until the shattering finale.
Author : Marshall Deutelbaum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-02-24
ISBN 10 : 9781405155564
Pages : 425 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (45 users)
Download A Hitchcock Reader PDF by Marshall Deutelbaum Full Free and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be used as a critical text in introductory or advanced film courses, while also satisfying Hitchcock scholars by representing the rich variety of critical responses to the director's films over the years. a total of 20 of Hitchcock’s films are discussed in depth - many others are considered in passing section introductions by the editors that contextualize the essays and the films they discuss well-researched bibliographic references, which will allow readers to broaden the scope of their study of Alfred Hitchcock
Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher :
Release Date : 1950
ISBN 10 : PSU:000009424869
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 ( users)
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Author : Ken Dancyger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2013-04-26
ISBN 10 : 9781136052828
Pages : 509 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (136 users)
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Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 1992-09-08
ISBN 10 : 026274015X
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (74 users)
Download Looking Awry PDF by Slavoj Zizek Full Free and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 0231135750
Pages : 346 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (135 users)
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Author : Jack Sullivan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-01
ISBN 10 : 9780300134667
Pages : 377 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (3 users)
Download Hitchcock's Music PDF by Jack Sullivan Full Free and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderfully coherent, comprehensive, groundbreaking, and thoroughly engaging study” of how the director of Psycho and The Birds used music in his films (Sidney Gottlieb, editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock). Alfred Hitchcock employed more musical styles and techniques than any film director in history, from Marlene Dietrich singing Cole Porter in Stage Fright to the revolutionary electronic soundtrack of The Birds. Many of his films—including Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho—are landmarks in the history of film music. Now author and musicologist Jack Sullivan presents the first in-depth study of the role music plays in Hitchcock’s films. Based on extensive interviews with composers, writers, and actors, as well as archival research, Sullivan discusses how Hitchcock used music to influence his cinematic atmospheres, characterizations, and even storylines. Sullivan examines the director’s relationships with various composers, especially Bernard Herrmann, and tells the stories behind some of their now-iconic musical choices. Covering the entire director’s career, from the early British works up to Family Plot, this engaging work will change the way we watch—and listen—to Hitchcock’s movies.
Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
ISBN 10 : 9780691218137
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (691 users)
Download The Hitchcock Romance PDF by Lesley Brill Full Free and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock's self-assessment unquestioned, but this book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Lesley Brill discusses Hitchcock's work as a whole and examines in detail twenty-two films, from perennial favorites like North by Northwest to neglected masterpieces like Rich and Strange.
