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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136931203321

Autore

McKittrick Casey

Titolo

Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread / / Casey McKittrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

ISBN

1-5013-1164-6

1-5013-1162-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

791.4302/33092

B

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Obesity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  Introduction -- Chapter 1: Hitchcock's Hollywood Diet -- Chapter 2: Appetite, Temporality, and Consequence in Rear Window: Another Impulse of Voyeurism -- Chapter 3: The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic Belonging -- Chapter 4: The Ins and Outs of Hitchcockian Consumption: Some Notes on His Cinematic Uses of Food and Drink -- Chapter 5: Children and the Challenge of Fat Masculinity -- Chapter 6: Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of Fatness -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first book-length study of director Alfred Hitchcock to consider how his struggles with weight and size found their expression in his cinema and in his creative life."--