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Author McKittrick, Casey, author

Title Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread / Casey McKittrick
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Hitchcock's Hollywood Diet -- Chapter 2: Appetite, Temporality, and Consequence in Rear Window: Another Impulse of Voyeurism -- Chapter 3: The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic Belonging -- Chapter 4: The Ins and Outs of Hitchcockian Consumption: Some Notes on His Cinematic Uses of Food and Drink -- Chapter 5: Children and the Challenge of Fat Masculinity -- Chapter 6: Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of Fatness -- Epilogue
Summary "The first book-length study of director Alfred Hitchcock to consider how his struggles with weight and size found their expression in his cinema and in his creative life."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Health
SUBJECT Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980. fast (OCoLC)fst00032434
Subject Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
Obesity.
Obesity
Health.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Obesity.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501311642
1501311646