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Classical Vertigo : mythic shapes and contemporary influences in Hitchcock's film / Mark William Padilla.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.V479 P33 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Padilla, Mark William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958).
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Cricism and interpretation.
- Hitchcock, Alfred.
- Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959--Criticism and interpretation.
- Anderson, Maxwell.
- Mythology in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In Classical Vertigo, Padilla analyzes narrative figures and themes of classical mythology within Hitchock's Vertigo to demonstrate that the film is a multifaceted work of intertextuality with artistic and cultural roots extending into antiquity itself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Locating Vertigo's themes in the corpus of Maxwell Anderson
- Maxwell Anderson's influences on Vertigo
- Four mythic couples
- Argonauts and underworld journeyers
- Mythic personae.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781666915914
- 1666915912
- OCLC:
- 1416598400
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