The Philosophical Hitchcock: "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness

by Robert B Pippin and Robert B. Pippin

Book Overview

On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its story of obsession and fantasy, Pippin reflects more broadly on the modern world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022650364X
• ISBN13: 9780226503646
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"