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- Title Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
- Author Richard Allen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Illustrated.
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231135740 / 0231135742
- Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
- Dimensions 9.11 x 6.33 x 0.91 in (23.14 x 16.08 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Hitchcock, Alfred - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007012808
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New. 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,…
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