Dark energy : Hitchcock's absolute camera and the physics of cinematic spacetime /
"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 featur...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2013.
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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.