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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164927803321

Autore

Greven David

Titolo

Intimate violence : Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory / / David Greven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-065834-7

0-19-021419-8

0-19-021418-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.8292

Soggetti

Women in motion pictures

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

Gender identity in motion pictures

Family violence

Child abuse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: intimate violence -- Queer Hitchcock: Psycho and North by Northwest -- "You're a strange girl, Charlie": sexual hegemony in Shadow of a doubt -- Mirrors without images: Spellbound -- Making a meal of manhood: Rope, orality, and queer anguish -- The fairgrounds of desire: paranoia and masochism in Strangers on a train -- The death-mother in Psycho: Hitchcock, femininity, and queer desire -- Marnie's queer resilience -- Epilogue: Melanie's birds: deconstructing the heroine.

Sommario/riassunto

'Intimate Violence' explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven merges queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock.