Hitchcock's Romantic Irony

by Richard Allen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231135750
• ISBN13: 9780231135757
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher