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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKittrick, Casey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Health.

Desire in motion pictures.

Obesity--Psychological aspects.

Obesity.

Motion picture--United States--History.

Motion picture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2016

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Hitchcock's Appetites, Casey McKittrick offers the first book-length study of the relationship between Hitchcock's body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colorful anecdotes of his private life, McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock's films, his creative process, and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man. Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration, and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique, and theories of embodiment, Hitchcock's Appetites produces a new and compelling profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5013-1163-8