War machines / Tom Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Tom, 1953-

Series:

Hitchcock's cryptonymies ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spy films--History and criticism.

Spy films.

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This second volume of Hitchcock's Cryptonomies presents the director's works as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of his-and cinema's-place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as of the cinema's revolutionary impact on perception and memory.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Hitchcock's Esperanto; Part I. Travel Service Window; 1. Transports; 2. Combined Ops: The Postal Politics of Bon Voyage!; Part II. Prehistory of the Afterlife of Cinema; 3. A Performativity without Frame; 4. ""How Old Is Mae West?""; 5. Phoenix Rex: The Passing of Oedipus in Hitchcock; Part III. Jump Cuts; 6. Time Machines; 7. Matrixide; Part IV. The Black Sun; 8. Prosthesis of the Visible; 9. Upping the Ante: A Deauratic Cinema; 10. Hitchcock's Light Touch; Coda: Trouble at the Séance; Notes; Index of Films; A; B; D; E; F; I; J; L; M; N; P; R

ST; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816694914

0816694915

OCLC:

476095793