How Long to Read Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games

How Long Does it Take to Read Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games by Thomas M. Leitch

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Developing a model of narrative based on game theory, Thomas Leitch offers a compelling new explanation for the distinctiveness and power of Hitchcock's films. Games such as the director's famous cameo appearances, the author says, allow the audience simultaneously to immerse itself in the world created by the narrative and to stand outside that world and appreciate the self-consciously suspenseful or comic techniques that make the movie peculiarly Hitchcockian. A crucial aspect of the director's gameplaying, Leitch contends, emerges in the way he repeatedly redefines the rules. Leitch divides Hitchcock's career into key periods in which one set of games gives way to another, reflecting changes in the director's concerns and the conditions under which he was making movies at the time. For example, the films of his late British period (the original Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes) pivot on witty situational games that continually surprise the viewers; the American films that followed in the next decade (Rebecca, Notorious, The Paradine Case) depend more on drawing the viewer into a close identification with a central character and that character's plight. These films in turn are followed by such works as Rope and Strangers on a Train, in which cat-and-mouse games--between characters, between Hitchcock and the characters, between Hitchcock and the audience--are the driving force. By repeatedly redefining what it means to be a Hitchcock film, Leitch explains, the director fosters a highly ambivalent attitude toward such concerns as the value of domesticity, the loss of identity, and the need for--and fear of--suspenseful apprehension.

How long is Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games?

Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games by Thomas M. Leitch is 314 pages long, and a total of 79,756 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games aloud.

What Reading Level is Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games?

Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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