Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. These practices are more than celebrations of his cinematic achievements. The artworks considered here are motivated by a cinephilia often deeply imprinted by epistemophilia, that is, a love of cinema charged by a desire to know more about it and to revel in the pleasures of discovery. As such, these works have the capacity to activate sophisticated engagements with Hitchcock's films and cinema more generally, tackling issues of time and space, memory and history, and sound and image.

Christine Sprengler is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Introduction: Alfred and the Artworld
1. Cinephilic Pilgrimages and the Reification of Profilmic Space
2. Activating Memories and Museums through the Expanded Essay Film
3. Remediation and Intermediality: From Moving to (Film) Still
4. Spatial Montage, Temporal Collage, and the Art(ifice) of Rear Projection
5. The Acoustics of Vertigo: Soundtracks, Soundscapes and Scores
Conclusion: Repossessing Cinema