Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread / Casey McKittrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKittrick, Casey.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Health.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Language Note:

Text in English.

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

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ISBN:

9781501311642

1501311646

9781501311628

150131162X

OCLC:

931035892