Men Who Knew Too Much

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-976443-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial control. Their fictions and films are obsessed with knowledge and its powers: who knows
what? What is there to know?

The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James. A wide-range of approaches offer fresh insights about spectatorship, narrative structure, and cinematic representation, as well as the
relationship between technology and art, the powers of silence, sensory-and sensational-experiences, the impact of cognition, and the uncertainty of interpretation. The essays explore the avowal and disavowal of familial bonds, as well as questions of Victorian convention, female agency, and male anxiety. And they
fruitfully engage issues related to patriarchy, colonialism, national, transnational, and global identities. The capacious collection, with its brilliant insights and intellectual surprises, is equally compelling in its range and cogency for James readers and film theorists, for Hitchcock fans and James scholars.

Zielgruppe

Readers of Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, Screen, Adaptation. Scholars interested in either Hitchcock or James.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffin, Susan M

Nadel, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Susan Griffin and Alan Nadel: Reading James with Hitchcock, Reading Hitchcock with James
Susan Griffin: National Bodies
Brenda Austin-Smith: Secrets, Lies, and "Virtuous Attachments": The Ambassadors and The 39 Steps
Brian T. Edwards: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock after the American Century: Circulation and Non-Return in The American Scene and Strangers on a Train
Alan Nadel: Colonial Discourse and the Unheard Other in Washington Square and The Man Who Knew Too Much
Mary Ann O'Farrell: Bump: Concussive Knowledge in James and Hitchcock
Patrick O'Donnell: James's Birdcage/Hitchcock's Birds
Donatella Izzo: Sounds of Silence in The Wings of the Dove and Blackmail
Judith Roof: The Perfect Enigma
Jonathan Freedman: Hands, Objects and Love in James and Hitchcock: Reading the Touch in The Golden Bowl and Notorious
Eric Savoy: The Touch of the Real: Circumscribing Vertigo
Aviva Briefel: Specters of Respectability: Victorian Horrors in The Turn of the Screw and Psycho
John Carlos Rowe: Caged Heat: Feminist Rebellion in Henry James's In the Cage and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Thomas B. Byers: Shadows of Modernity: What Maisie Knew and Shadow of a Doubt
Mark Goble: Awkward Ages: James and Hitchcock In Between
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Griffin is Justus Bier Professor of Humanities & Chair of the Department of English at the University of Louisville.

Alan Nadel is William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature & Culture, University of Kentucky.