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Alfred Hitchcock once famously remarked, "Actors are cattle." In
The Camera Lies, Dan Callahan uncovers the sophisticated acting theory that lay beneath the director's notorious indifference towards his performers, spotlighting the great performances of deceit and duplicity he often coaxed from them.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Naughty Boys and The Pleasure Garden
- The Mountain Eagle and The Lodger
- Six More in Silence: The Ring, Downhill, The Farmer's Wife, Easy Virtue, Champagne, The Manxman
- Blackmail
- Juno and the Paycock, Murder!, Mary, Elstree Calling, The Skin Game
- Rich and Strange, Number 17, Waltzes from Vienna
- The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage
- Young and Innocent, The Lady Vanishes, Jamaica Inn
- Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Suspicion
- Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Spellbound
- Notorious, The Paradine Case, Rope, Under Capricorn, Stage Fright
- Strangers on a Train, I Confess
- Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie
- Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot, AFI award
About the author
Dan Callahan is the author of Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman, Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave, The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960, and The Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today. He has written about film for Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Nylon, The Village Voice, and many other publications.
Summary
Alfred Hitchcock once famously remarked, "Actors are cattle." In The Camera Lies, Dan Callahan uncovers the sophisticated acting theory that lay beneath the director's notorious indifference towards his performers, spotlighting the great performances of deceit and duplicity he often coaxed from them.
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Callahan is the Plutarch of American film critics.
