Pomerance Alfred Hitchcock's America

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6512-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PALS-Polity America Through the Lens series

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of classinequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene aperspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in Americancinema.
Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and adetailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and productiontechniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s isrevealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's work.Alfred Hitchcock's America is full of stunning details thatbring new light to Hitchcock's method and works. The American"spirit of place," is seen here in light of the titanic Americanpersonality, American values in a consumer age, social class andAmerican social form, and the characteristic American marriage. Thebook's analysis ranges across a wide array of films fromRebecca to Family Plot, and examines in depth thelocation sequences, characterological types, and complex socialexpectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrivedthere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pomerance, Murray

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Alfred Hitchcock in America 1
1 Hitchcock's American Scapes 18
2 Hitchcock's American Personalities 71
3 Hitchcock and American Values 123
4 Hitchcock and American Social Form 176
5 Hitchcock and the American Marriage 225
Works Cited and Consulted 284
Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Murray Pomerance is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is also editor of the Techniques of the Moving Image series and his previous works include An Eye for Hitchcock (2004) and Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s (2011).