TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Richard
TI  - Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
T2  - Film and Culture Series
SN  - 9780231135757
AV  - PN1998.3.H58 A73 2007
U1  - 791.4302 33092B 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/alle13574
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231509671
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231509671/original
ER  -