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Hitchcock´s Romantic Irony
Richard Allen
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Description for Hitchcock´s Romantic Irony
Paperback. Argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance. The author describes 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. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 64 illus. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Is 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 ... Read more
Is 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135757
SKU
V9780231135757
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About Richard Allen
Richard Allen is professor and chair of cinema studies at New York University. He is the author of numerous essays on Hitchcock, coeditor of two anthologies, Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays and Hitchcock: Past and Future, and with Sidney Gottlieb he edits the Hitchcock Annual for Wallflower Press. Richard Allen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. ... Read more
Reviews for Hitchcock´s Romantic Irony
Tough but rewarding. Empire (four star review) In-depth, insightful... Highly recommended. CHOICE Comprehensive and gracefully conceived.
Michael Richardson Cineaste [Allen's] knowledge of Hitchcock's films is impressive. Times Literary Supplement Carefully researched and artfully written... critics will be tracing the ramifications of Hitchcock's romantic irony for a long time to come.
David Sterritt Film Quarterly
Michael Richardson Cineaste [Allen's] knowledge of Hitchcock's films is impressive. Times Literary Supplement Carefully researched and artfully written... critics will be tracing the ramifications of Hitchcock's romantic irony for a long time to come.
David Sterritt Film Quarterly