Hitchcock's appetites the corpulent plots of desire and dread
"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"--
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury OA ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4452660x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Why appetites? ; Why Hitchcock? ; Hitchcock studies and fat studies: An interdisciplinary repulsion? ; Hitchcock, f eminism, and e mbodiment ; How Hitchcock ' s body matters ; The genius of tall, thin, and handsome ; Chapter 1 Hitchcock ' s Hollywood diet ; The makings of a media giant ; The arrival of the " 300-Pound Prophet " ; Selznick ' s fat commodity ; Chapter 2 The Hitchcock cameo: Fat self-fashioning and cinematic belonging.
- "The Real Me (The Thin One) " : Another origin story of the cameo The (Meso) textual play of the cameo: Blackmail, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Stage Fright ; A typology of the Hitchcock cameo ; Chapter 3 The pleasures and pangs of Hitchcockian consumption ; Screening the revolting body ; The poetics of potables ; " Drink It Down " : An Hitchcockian imperative ; Lactose and intolerance: The poisonous meanings of milk ; Hitchcockian consumption and the carnivalesque.
- Food, sex, murder: The Hitchcockian trinity of pleasure Hitchcock and the signifying food chain ; Chapter 4 Appetite and temporality in Rear Window : Another aspect of voyeurism ; An eye for a stomach: The instructive case of Miss Torso ; Framing the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Girl ; The problem of fit: Imagining change, growth, and proportion ; When seeing is not believing ; " I want no part of her " : Women and the comedy of corporeal errors ; Time, change, and ambivalence ; Chapter 5 Childhood and the challenge of fat masculinity.
- "You ' ll outgrow it " : Hitchcock ' s youth Suffer little children : Hitchcock and cinematic childhood ; Loss, danger, absence: The semiotics of Hitchcock ' s filmic children ; The Wrong Man and the appetites of Cain and Abel ; Chapter 6 Hitchcock and the queer lens of fatness ; Hitchcock and the fat closet ; A sense of sex: Queer romance in Hitchcock ' s cinema ; Cinematic vicarity: Surrogate versus prosthetic identification ; The Tickles: Subjectivities without bodies ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Introduction.
