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Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays S.Ishii Gonzales

Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays By S.Ishii Gonzales

Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays by S.Ishii Gonzales


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This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.

Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays Summary

Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays by S.Ishii Gonzales

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.

Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays Reviews

An excellent overview of the relationship between biography and history, and the underlying debates. - Melanie Nolan, National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, Australia Historical biography is a topic which historians have neglected for far too long, and this incisive and thought-provoking survey fills a real gap in the literature. - Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham, UK

About S.Ishii Gonzales

BARBARA CAINE is Professor of Historyat Monash University, Australia. She has published extensively in the area of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history and biography.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master theory vs practice, Deborah Knight and George McKnight.- Hitchcock, fin de partie, Raymond Bellour.- Hitchcock as sabateur, Susan Smith.- The theatre in English Hitchcock. Part 2 Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir, James Naremore.- The efforts of Eros Hitchcock with the surrealists, S. Ishii Gonzales.- The cult of representation painting and sculpture in Hitchcock, Brigitte Peuker.- Hitchcock's rope, Peter Wollen. Part 3 Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle Hitchcock on television, Tom Leitch.- We might even get in the news reels the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films, Ina Rae Hark.- You wanns check my thumb prints? Vertigo, the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism, Robert Corber.- On espionage and The 39 Steps, Toby Miller. Part 4 Sexuality/romance: Marnie and the foreclosure of lesbian identity, Jacqueline Joyce.- Hitchcock's future, Lee Edelman.- Are snakes necessary? in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges, Lesley Brill.- Vertigo and feminist theory, Susan White. Part 5 Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy, Thomas Elsasser.- Returning to the scene of the crime Psycho and the remake, William Rothman.- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character, Paula Marantz Cohen.- Hitchcock, Metasceptic, Richard Allen.

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GOR003355642
9780851707365
085170736X
Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays by S.Ishii Gonzales
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19990901
380
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