LEADER 03543nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910454875803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612871986 010 $a1-282-87198-6 010 $a0-231-50967-7 024 7 $a10.7312/alle13574 035 $a(CKB)1000000000772028 035 $a(EBL)908480 035 $a(OCoLC)649914762 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000437746 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12129412 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437746 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448480 035 $a(PQKB)10806501 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908480 035 $a(DE-B1597)458588 035 $a(OCoLC)1024002148 035 $a(OCoLC)1029823678 035 $a(OCoLC)1032677768 035 $a(OCoLC)1037972613 035 $a(OCoLC)1041973618 035 $a(OCoLC)1046609334 035 $a(OCoLC)1047017935 035 $a(OCoLC)1049624418 035 $a(OCoLC)1054870251 035 $a(OCoLC)979751596 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509671 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908480 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10397438 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287198 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000772028 100 $a20070327d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHitchcock's romantic irony$b[electronic resource] /$fRichard Allen 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 295 p.) 225 1 $aFilm and culture series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-13575-0 311 $a0-231-13574-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-279) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tI. Narrative Form -- $t1. Romantic Irony -- $t2. Suspense -- $t3. Knowledge and Sexual Difference -- $tPart II. Visual Style -- $t4. Sexuality and Style -- $t5. Expressionism -- $tBackmatter 330 $aIs Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism. 410 0$aFilm and culture. 606 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. 676 $a791.4302/33092 676 $aB 700 $aAllen$b Richard$f1959-$0858028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454875803321 996 $aHitchcock's romantic irony$92471601 997 $aUNINA