Hitchcock's Romantic Irony /
Allen, Richard
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony / Richard Allen. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 64 illus. - Film and Culture Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Romantic Irony -- 2. Suspense -- 3. Knowledge and Sexual Difference -- 4. Sexuality and Style -- 5. Expressionism -- 6. Color Design -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter -- Preface
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231135757 9780231509671
10.7312/alle13574 doi
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
PN1998.3.H58 / A73 2007
791.4302 33092 B
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony / Richard Allen. - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 64 illus. - Film and Culture Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Romantic Irony -- 2. Suspense -- 3. Knowledge and Sexual Difference -- 4. Sexuality and Style -- 5. Expressionism -- 6. Color Design -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter -- Preface
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231135757 9780231509671
10.7312/alle13574 doi
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
PN1998.3.H58 / A73 2007
791.4302 33092 B