Intimate violence : Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory

Intimate violence : Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory / David Greven.

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, Dav...

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Main Author: Greven, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980
Hitchcock, Alfred > 1899-1980
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Women in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Violence in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Homosexuality in motion pictures
Violence in motion pictures
Women in motion pictures
Queer-Theorie
Homosexualität > Motiv
Frau > Motiv
Gewalt > Motiv
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: intimate violence
  • Queer Hitchcock: Psycho and North by Northwest
  • "You're a strange girl, Charlie": sexual hegemony in Shadow of a doubt
  • Mirrors without images: Spellbound
  • Making a meal of manhood: Rope, orality, and queer anguish
  • The fairgrounds of desire: paranoia and masochism in Strangers on a train
  • The death-mother in Psycho: Hitchcock, femininity, and queer desire
  • Marnie's queer resilience
  • Epilogue: Melanie's birds: deconstructing the heroine.

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