| Description |
1 online resource (490 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Film culture in transition |
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Film culture in transition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-429), filmography (pages 431-462) , and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama. Introduction -- Three motifs. Home movies -- Cigarette case/lighter -- Milk -- Melodrama and Hitchcock's motifs -- An elaborated motif: the Bed Scene in Rebecca and Marnie -- A melodramatic motif: hands -- Diagrammatic representations -- Overview of the key motifs -- Part II. The Key Motifs. BED SCENE -- Couples and beds -- Beds and the police -- BLONDES AND BRUNETTES -- CAMEO APPEARANCES -- Cameos and the police -- CHILDREN -- Children's cameos -- Family members -- Children and violence -- Children and the police -- CONFINED SPACES -- Bathrooms and washrooms -- Confinement and concealment -- Cages and bars: fears of imprisonment -- Washrooms and the police -- THE CORPSE -- The heroines -- The heroes -- The villains -- Corpses and the police -- DOGS AND CATS -- Dogs and the police -- DOUBLES -- Doubles and the police -- ENDINGS AND THE POLICE -- ENTRY THROUGH A WINDOW -- Entry through a window and the police -- EXHIBITIONISM / VOYEURISM / THE LOOK -- EXHIBITIONISM / VOYEURISM -- SPY FILMS / THE LOOK -- Exhibitionism, voyeurism and the police -- FOOD AND MEALS -- Food and marriage -- Food and sex -- Food and murder -- Food and guilt -- Chickens and eggs -- Table talk and fascism -- Food and the police -- GUILTAND CONFESSION -- Catholic overtones -- Guilt and Hitchcock's villains -- Transference of guilt -- Guilt, confession and the police -- HANDCUFFS AND BONDAGE -- HANDS -- Male hands/female hands -- Held wrists -- Damaged hands -- Holding hands -- Hands and the police -- HEIGHTS AND FALLING -- Heights, falling and the police -- HOMOSEXUALITY -- Critical positions -- Gay undercurrents -- Espionage and the look -- Ivor Novello -- Homosexuality and the police -- JEWELLERY -- Greed -- Status -- Female desire -- Female beauty/male power -- Male murderousness -- Jewellery and the police -- KEYS AND HANDBAGS -- KEYS -- Keys and handbags -- HANDBAGS -- Handbags and keys -- Keys, handbags and the police -- LIGHT(S) -- Vampires and blinding -- Murder and homosexuality -- Lights and the police -- THE MACGUFFIN -- The MacGuffin and the police -- MOTHERS AND HOUSES -- Mothers and the police -- PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND PAINTERS -- PORTRAITS -- PAINTINGS -- Modern art -- PAINTERS -- Portraits, paintings and the police -- PUBLIC DISTURBANCES -- Public disturbances and the police -- SPECTACLES -- Spectacles and the police -- STAIRCASES -- Hitchcockian levels -- Political variations -- Sinister staircases -- Freudian overtones -- Couples and staircases -- Staircases and the police -- TRAINS AND BOATS / PLANES AND BUSES -- TRAINS -- BOATS -- PLANES -- BUSES -- Trains and boats and the police -- WATER AND RAIN -- WATER -- RAIN -- Water and the police -- Appendix I: TV Episodes. BED SCENE -- CHILDREN -- CONFINED SPACES -- THE CORPSE -- DOUBLES -- FOOD AND MURDER / ENDINGS AND THE POLICE -- LIGHTS -- BOATS -- Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock's motifs -- Appendix III: Definitions. Diegesis -- Point-of-view editing. |
| Summary |
Hitchcock's work through his recurring motifs. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980. (OCoLC)fst00032434
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Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
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Hitchcock, Alfred.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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The arts.
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Film, TV and radio.
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Films, cinema.
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01027350
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| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Michael. Hitchcock's motifs. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2005 9053567720 9053567739 (OCoLC)62768303 |
| ISBN |
1423746295 (electronic bk.) |
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9781423746294 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048505456 (electronic bk.) |
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9048505453 (electronic bk.) |
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