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  title info:
    title: Dark energy
    sub title: Hitchcock's absolute camera and the physics of cinematic spacetime
  name:
    name part: Skerry, Philip J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinema. He entered the film industry in 1920, and by 1925, he had directed his first feature-length film, The Pleasure Garden. His subsequent film career paralleled the phenomenal growth of the film industry during the years 1925-1976, the year of his last film. In the same way, Hitchcock's films are consonant with the revolutionary theories in the fields of physics and cosmology that were transforming the twentieth century, personified by the genius of Albert Einstein. Philip Skerry's book applies the theories of dark energy, entropy, black holes, and quantum mechanics to Hitchcock's technological genius and camera aesthetics, helping to explain the concept of 'pure cinema' and providing verification for its remarkable power. Including interviews with influential physicists, this study opens up new ways of analyzing Hitchcock's art." -- Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Introduction: searching for light in the darkness -- In search of light and enlightenment -- Hitchcock's "absolute camera" -- Rear window: the apotheosis of the absolute camera -- Two princes of dark energy -- Psycho: a new paradigm -- The quantum universe of Vertigo -- The physicists speak -- Epilogue.
  note: Philip J. Skerry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hitchcock, Alfred
      name part: 1899-1980
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Cinematography
  classification: PN1998.3.H58 S56 2013
  classification: 791.4302/33092
  identifier: 9781441184016 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1441184015 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781441189455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1441189459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2013004492
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130315
    record change date: 20151205115532.0
    record identifier: in00003337795
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng