Title Hitchcock's motifs / Michael Walker

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (490 pages) : illustrations Series Film culture in transition Film culture in transition. Contents 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 Summary Hitchcock's work through his recurring motifs Analysis Multi-User Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-429), filmography (p. 431-462) , and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2024. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN Subject Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 fast Hitchcock, Alfred 1899-1980 gnd Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Themes, motives. idszbzes Subject Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc. The arts. Film, TV and radio. Films, cinema. Individual film directors, film-makers. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc. Music, Dance, Drama & Film. Film. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006370089 ISBN 1423746295 9781423746294 9789048505456 9048505453 9786610958160 6610958165

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