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Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
by Richard Allen
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- 0231135742
- ISBN 13
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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, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Title
- Hitchcock's Romantic Irony
- Author
- Richard Allen
- Book Condition
- New
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- 2
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- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0231135742
- ISBN 13
- 9780231135740
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007012808
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