Intimate Violence P

by David Greven

Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190214171
• ISBN13: 9780190214173
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"