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Alfred Hitchcock & Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller: Volume One: The Partnership (Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller Book 1)

Alfred Hitchcock & Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller: Volume One: The Partnership (Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller Book 1)

John Charles Bennett
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Screenwriter Charles Bennett was Alfred Hitchcock’s inspiration and mentor. Between 1929-1940 Bennett wrote seven scripts establishing Hitchcock's reputation as the "Master of Suspense." The first was Bennett’s 1928 play "Blackmail" adapted as Britain's first "full length all-talkie super-film." This was followed by Hitch's adaptation of "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" as "The Man Who Knew Too Much" . Then came "The 39 Steps," "Secret Agent," "Sabotage," "Young and Innocent," and "Foreign Correspondent." But because Hitchcock did not want his reliance known, he crafted a "Lie of Omission" to misdirect attention away from Bennett's influence, successfully misleading journalists, critics, and historians to consider the director as the "auteur" , while Bennett became critically maligned, insulted, and disregarded. This Volume One of this study, "The Rise of the Modern The Partnership" corrects the film history by walking the reader through Hitchcock's obfuscations to reveal how Bennett created the technically "Modern" mystery thriller and "hero's Journey" construction. It explains that Bennett's “one story” derived from his love of Jules Verne's novels, coupled with theatrical knowledge accumulated through twenty years experience as a stage actor. After a successful start as an innovative London playwright , Bennett brought his Modern thriller into film by a set of experimental "quota quickies." In 1931 John Maxwell, Chairman of British International Pictures, contracted Bennett to write the "Bulldog Drummond" screenplay under Hitchcock's supervision. There now came a chapter unknown to film history when Hitchcock was fired from B.I.P. owing to his too whimsical camera direction applied to a Bennett screenplay. And in a stroke of deception, Hitchcock denied Bennett a screenplay credit for its adaptation, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" . When Bennett's “wrong man” scenario became acclaimed in "The 39 Steps," Hitchcock countered that he adapted the Buchan-inspired film. And though after "Secret Agent," Bennett was designated as England's top scenarist, film history mischaracterized him as Hitch’s stenographer. In two 1938 interviews Hitchcock undermined Bennett's reputation, claiming responsibility for 99.44% of his films’ content, misappropriating Bennett's journey construction as his own, and explaining how he preferred to work with inexperienced writers amenable to his instruction. In 1940, the director misattributed Bennett’s Oscar-nominated screenplay "Foreign Correspondent" to wife Alma and Secretary Joan Harrison. Where Volume One challenges scholars to correct the history, a separate Volume Two--"Hero’s Journey and Story Closeups"--drills deeply into Bennett's narrative constructions. The second volume explains how Bennett's influential hero's journey construction predated Joseph Campbell's scholarship by twenty years. Analyses are made of Bennett’s stories, themes, and dramatic ideas, his contributions to the thriller subgenres , and his character types and thriller motifs false accusation, forewarning, MacGuffin, time limit, double jeopardy and double chase, theme of the couple, joint quest, partners-on-the-run, doubt, and suspense. The study concludes on a study of the partners' dialectic, and reveals the director's terror that his reliance on Bennett would be found out. In 1995 the Writer's Guild of America-West honored Bennett with its Screen Laurel Award for lifetime achievement, particularly for the Hitchcock films.
Language
English
Pages
516
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
August 11, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock & Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller: Volume One: The Partnership (Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Bennett: The Rise of the Modern Thriller Book 1)

John Charles Bennett
5/5 ( ratings)
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Screenwriter Charles Bennett was Alfred Hitchcock’s inspiration and mentor. Between 1929-1940 Bennett wrote seven scripts establishing Hitchcock's reputation as the "Master of Suspense." The first was Bennett’s 1928 play "Blackmail" adapted as Britain's first "full length all-talkie super-film." This was followed by Hitch's adaptation of "Bulldog Drummond's Baby" as "The Man Who Knew Too Much" . Then came "The 39 Steps," "Secret Agent," "Sabotage," "Young and Innocent," and "Foreign Correspondent." But because Hitchcock did not want his reliance known, he crafted a "Lie of Omission" to misdirect attention away from Bennett's influence, successfully misleading journalists, critics, and historians to consider the director as the "auteur" , while Bennett became critically maligned, insulted, and disregarded. This Volume One of this study, "The Rise of the Modern The Partnership" corrects the film history by walking the reader through Hitchcock's obfuscations to reveal how Bennett created the technically "Modern" mystery thriller and "hero's Journey" construction. It explains that Bennett's “one story” derived from his love of Jules Verne's novels, coupled with theatrical knowledge accumulated through twenty years experience as a stage actor. After a successful start as an innovative London playwright , Bennett brought his Modern thriller into film by a set of experimental "quota quickies." In 1931 John Maxwell, Chairman of British International Pictures, contracted Bennett to write the "Bulldog Drummond" screenplay under Hitchcock's supervision. There now came a chapter unknown to film history when Hitchcock was fired from B.I.P. owing to his too whimsical camera direction applied to a Bennett screenplay. And in a stroke of deception, Hitchcock denied Bennett a screenplay credit for its adaptation, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" . When Bennett's “wrong man” scenario became acclaimed in "The 39 Steps," Hitchcock countered that he adapted the Buchan-inspired film. And though after "Secret Agent," Bennett was designated as England's top scenarist, film history mischaracterized him as Hitch’s stenographer. In two 1938 interviews Hitchcock undermined Bennett's reputation, claiming responsibility for 99.44% of his films’ content, misappropriating Bennett's journey construction as his own, and explaining how he preferred to work with inexperienced writers amenable to his instruction. In 1940, the director misattributed Bennett’s Oscar-nominated screenplay "Foreign Correspondent" to wife Alma and Secretary Joan Harrison. Where Volume One challenges scholars to correct the history, a separate Volume Two--"Hero’s Journey and Story Closeups"--drills deeply into Bennett's narrative constructions. The second volume explains how Bennett's influential hero's journey construction predated Joseph Campbell's scholarship by twenty years. Analyses are made of Bennett’s stories, themes, and dramatic ideas, his contributions to the thriller subgenres , and his character types and thriller motifs false accusation, forewarning, MacGuffin, time limit, double jeopardy and double chase, theme of the couple, joint quest, partners-on-the-run, doubt, and suspense. The study concludes on a study of the partners' dialectic, and reveals the director's terror that his reliance on Bennett would be found out. In 1995 the Writer's Guild of America-West honored Bennett with its Screen Laurel Award for lifetime achievement, particularly for the Hitchcock films.
Language
English
Pages
516
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
August 11, 2020

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