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Format: 1 online resource (490 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1280958162 , 9786610958160 , 9048505453 , 1423746295

Series Statement: Film culture in transition

Content: Alfred Hitchcock's films are renowned the world over, and a mountain of literature has detailed seemingly every facet of them. Yet remarkably few studies have solely focused on the recurring motifs in Hitchcock's films. Michael Walker remedies this surprising gap in Hitchcock literature with an innovative and in-depth study of the sustained motifs and themes threaded through Hitchcock's entire body of work. Combing through all fifty-two extant feature films and representative episodes from Hitchcock's television series, Walker traces over forty motifs that emerge in recurring objects, settings, character-types, and events. Whether the loaded meaning of staircases, the symbolic status of keys and handbags, homoeroticism, guilt and confession, or the role of art, Walker analyzes such elements to reveal a complex web of cross-references in Hitchcock's art. He also gives full attention to the broader social contexts in which the motifs and themes are played out, arguing that these interwoven elements add new and richer depths to Hitchcock's oeuvre. An invaluable, encyclopedic resource for the scholar and fan, Hitchcock's Motifs is a fascinating study of one of the best-known and most admired film directors in history.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021). , Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama; Part II The Key Motifs; Appendix I: TV Episodes; Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock's motifs; Appendix III: Definitions; References; Filmography; List of illustrations; Index of Hitchcock's films and their motifs; General Index , Also available in print form. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 9053567739

Language: English

Subjects: General works , English Studies

Keywords: Biografie ; Electronic book

DOI: 10.1515/9789048505456

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ISBN: 9789048505456

Series Statement: Film Culture in Transition

Content: Alfred Hitchcock’s films are renowned the world over, and a mountain of literature has detailed seemingly every facet of them. Yet remarkably few studies have solely focused on the recurring motifs in Hitchcock’s films. Michael Walker remedies this surprising gap in Hitchcock literature with an innovative and in-depth study of the sustained motifs and themes threaded through Hitchcock’s entire body of work. Combing through all fifty-two extant feature films and representative episodes from Hitchcock’s television series, Walker traces over forty motifs that emerge in recurring objects, settings, character-types, and events. Whether the loaded meaning of staircases, the symbolic status of keys and handbags, homoeroticism, guilt and confession, or the role of art, Walker analyzes such elements to reveal a complex web of cross-references in Hitchcock’s art. He also gives full attention to the broader social contexts in which the motifs and themes are played out, arguing that these interwoven elements add new and richer depths to Hitchcock’s oeuvre. An invaluable, encyclopedic resource for the scholar and fan, Hitchcock’s Motifs is a fascinating study of one of the best-known and most admired film directors in history.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction -- , Part I Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama -- , Introduction -- , Three motifs -- , Melodrama and Hitchcock’s motifs -- , An elaborated motif: the Bed Scene in Rebecca and Marnie -- , A melodramatic motif: hands -- , Diagrammatic representations -- , Overview of the key motifs -- , Part II The Key Motifs -- , BED SCENE -- , BLONDES AND BRUNETTES -- , CAMEO APPEARANCES -- , CHILDREN -- , CONFINED SPACES -- , THE CORPSE -- , DOGS AND CATS -- , DOUBLES -- , ENDINGS AND THE POLICE -- , ENTRY THROUGH A WINDOW -- , EXHIBITIONISM / VOYEURISM / THE LOOK -- , FOOD AND MEALS -- , GUILT AND CONFESSION -- , HANDCUFFS AND BONDAGE -- , HANDS -- , HEIGHTS AND FALLING -- , HOMOSEXUALITY -- , JEWELLERY -- , KEYS AND HANDBAGS -- , LIGHT(S) -- , THE MACGUFFIN -- , MOTHERS AND HOUSES -- , PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND PAINTERS -- , PUBLIC DISTURBANCES -- , SPECTACLES -- , STAIRCASES -- , TRAINS AND BOATS / PLANES AND BUSES -- , WATER AND RAIN -- , Appendix I: TV Episodes -- , Appendix II: Articles on Hitchcock’s motifs -- , Appendix III: Definitions -- , References -- , Filmography -- , List of illustrations -- , Index of Hitchcock’s films and their motifs -- , General index -- , Film Culture in Transition , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9789048505456

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048505456

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (490 pages)

ISBN: 1280958162 , 1423746295 , 9048505453 , 9053567720 , 9053567739 , 9781280958168 , 9781423746294 , 9789048505456 , 9789053567722 , 9789053567739

Series Statement: Film culture in transition

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-429) , filmography (p. 431-462) , and index , Part I. - Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama - Introduction -- - Three motifs - Home movies -- - Cigarette case/lighter -- - Milk -- - Melodrama and Hitchcock's motifs -- - An elaborated motif: the Bed Scene in Rebecca and Marnie -- - A melodramatic motif: hands -- - Diagrammatic representations -- - Overview of the key motifs -- - Part II. - The Key Motifs - BED SCENE -- - Couples and beds -- - Beds and the police -- - BLONDES AND BRUNETTES -- - CAMEO APPEARANCES -- - Cameos and the police -- - CHILDREN -- - Children's cameos -- - Family members -- - Children and violence -- - Children and the police -- - CONFINED SPACES -- - Bathrooms and washrooms -- - Confinement and concealment -- - Cages and bars: fears of imprisonment -- - Washrooms and the police -- - THE CORPSE -- - The heroines -- - The heroes -- - The villains -- - Corpses and the police -- - DOGS AND CATS -- - Dogs and the police -- - DOUBLES -- - Doubles and the police -- - ENDINGS AND THE POLICE -- , - ENTRY THROUGH A WINDOW -- - Entry through a window and the police -- - EXHIBITIONISM / VOYEURISM / THE LOOK -- - EXHIBITIONISM / VOYEURISM -- - SPY FILMS / THE LOOK -- - Exhibitionism, voyeurism and the police -- - FOOD AND MEALS -- - Food and marriage -- - Food and sex -- - Food and murder -- - Food and guilt -- - Chickens and eggs -- - Table talk and fascism -- - Food and the police -- - GUILTAND CONFESSION -- - Catholic overtones -- - Guilt and Hitchcock's villains -- - Transference of guilt -- - Guilt, confession and the police -- - HANDCUFFS AND BONDAGE -- - HANDS -- - Male hands/female hands -- - Held wrists -- - Damaged hands -- - Holding hands -- - Hands and the police -- - HEIGHTS AND FALLING -- - Heights, falling and the police -- - HOMOSEXUALITY -- - Critical positions -- - Gay undercurrents -- - Espionage and the look -- - Ivor Novello -- - Homosexuality and the police -- - JEWELLERY -- - Greed -- - Status -- - Female desire -- - Female beauty/male power -- , - Male murderousness -- - Jewellery and the police -- - KEYS AND HANDBAGS -- - KEYS -- - Keys and handbags -- - HANDBAGS -- - Handbags and keys -- - Keys, handbags and the police -- - LIGHT(S) -- - Vampires and blinding -- - Murder and homosexuality -- - Lights and the police -- - THE MACGUFFIN -- - The MacGuffin and the police -- - MOTHERS AND HOUSES -- - Mothers and the police -- - PORTRAITS, PAINTINGS AND PAINTERS -- - PORTRAITS -- - PAINTINGS -- - Modern art -- - PAINTERS -- - Portraits, paintings and the police -- - PUBLIC DISTURBANCES -- - Public disturbances and the police -- - SPECTACLES -- - Spectacles and the police -- - STAIRCASES -- - Hitchcockian levels -- - Political variations -- - Sinister staircases -- - Freudian overtones -- - Couples and staircases -- - Staircases and the police -- - TRAINS AND BOATS / PLANES AND BUSES -- - TRAINS -- - BOATS -- - PLANES -- - BUSES -- - Trains and boats and the police -- - WATER AND RAIN -- - WATER -- - RAIN -- , - Water and the police -- - Appendix I - TV Episodes - BED SCENE -- - CHILDREN -- - CONFINED SPACES -- - THE CORPSE -- - DOUBLES -- - FOOD AND MURDER / ENDINGS AND THE POLICE -- - LIGHTS -- - BOATS -- - Appendix II - Articles on Hitchcock's motifs -- - Appendix III - Definitions - Diegesis -- - Point-of-view editing , Hitchcock's work through his recurring motifs

Language: English

Keywords: Hitchcock, Alfred 1899-1980 ; Film ; Motiv ; Biografie

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