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Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
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ISBN: 9780231135740 9780231135757 0231135750 0231135742 9780231509671 0231509677 1282871986 9786612871986 Year: 2007 Volume: *11 Publisher: New York, NY

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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 approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

Hitchcock and the methods of suspense
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ISBN: 9780786425600 0786425601 Year: 2007 Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. London : McFarland,

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"This work examines themes, techniques, and the filmmaking process in 15 of Hitchcock's best known films. It explores the auteur's treatments of psychoanalysis, voyeurism, and collective fears during the Cold War. Also presented are key stories behind several Hitchcock classics. The book includes numerous photographs and an extensive bibliography"--Provided by publisher.

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