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Hitchcock's Romantic Irony

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ISBN-10: 0231135750

ISBN-13: 9780231135757

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Allen

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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