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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Brill, Lesley,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1988
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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