03510nam 2200745 a 450 991077792880332120200520144314.097866128719861-282-87198-60-231-50967-710.7312/alle13574(CKB)1000000000772028(EBL)908480(OCoLC)649914762(SSID)ssj0000437746(PQKBManifestationID)12129412(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437746(PQKBWorkID)10448480(PQKB)10806501(MiAaPQ)EBC908480(DE-B1597)458588(OCoLC)1024002148(OCoLC)1029823678(OCoLC)1032677768(OCoLC)1037972613(OCoLC)1041973618(OCoLC)1046609334(OCoLC)1047017935(OCoLC)1049624418(OCoLC)1054870251(OCoLC)979751596(DE-B1597)9780231509671(Au-PeEL)EBL908480(CaPaEBR)ebr10397438(CaONFJC)MIL287198(EXLCZ)99100000000077202820070327d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHitchcock's romantic irony[electronic resource] /Richard AllenNew York Columbia University Pressc20071 online resource (xxi, 295 p.)Film and culture seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-13575-0 0-231-13574-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-279) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Narrative Form -- 1. Romantic Irony -- 2. Suspense -- 3. Knowledge and Sexual Difference -- Part II. Visual Style -- 4. Sexuality and Style -- 5. Expressionism -- BackmatterIs 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 human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.Film and culture.PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / GeneralbisacshPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.791.4302/33092BAllen Richard1959-1505771MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777928803321Hitchcock's romantic irony3737324UNINA