The Hitchcock Romance : : Love and Irony in Hitchcock's Films / / Lesley Brill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Brill, Lesley,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FRAME ENLARGEMENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. North by Northwest and Romance --; 2. Young and Innocent: Comic Romances of False Accusation --; 3. Mixed Romances --; 4. Do Not Presume: Irony --; 5. "I Look Up, I Look Down" --; 6. Bygones be Bygones --; 7. "Love's Not Time's Fool" --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691218137; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691218137?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lesley Brill.

Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? Most commentators leave Hitchcock's self-assessment unquestioned, but this book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love. Lesley Brill discusses Hitchcock's work as a whole and examines in detail twenty-two films, from perennial favorites like North by Northwest to neglected masterpieces like Rich and Strange.