Hitchcock's romantic irony / Richard Allen.

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Richard, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Series:Film and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • pt. 1. Narrative form
  • 1. Romantic irony
  • 2. Suspense
  • 3. Knowledge and sexual difference
  • pt. 2. Visual style
  • 4. Sexuality and style
  • 5. Expressionism
  • 6. Color design
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.