Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous appro…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-13575-7
- EAN: 9780231135757
- Produktnummer: 18692802
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.8 cm 476 g
- Abbildungen: 64 illus.
- Gewicht: 476
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Richard Allen
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