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A voyage with Hitchcock / Murray Pomerance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pomerance, Murray, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hitchcock, Alfred.
- Travel in motion pictures.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)--History and criticism.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (374 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Where We Go from Here
- 1. Whither Thou Goest: Psycho, Metamorphosis, Mother
- The Water Runs
- The Chain of Chances
- The Sound of Silence
- Boy's Best Friend
- Interlude: A Hand Job
- Hard Ware
- Three Journeys of Psycho
- [A] To and From the Past
- [B] Place
- [C] Profane
- 2. "God made the country": Remember The 39 Steps
- A Living Encyclopedia
- Steps
- In a Croft
- Memories
- The Union
- Unresolved
- 3. "Where do you come from?": Hitchcock's Winged Victory
- Apocalypse
- Interlude: 'Ologies
- New World
- Idée fixe
- I Remember Mama
- Traum(a)
- Lacunae
- In the Country
- Things Fall Apart
- Ep ilogue
- 4. Say Nice Things or Dial M for Murder
- Interlude: A Room with a View
- The Wrong Fugue
- Tennis Wrist
- Best Laid Plans
- A Chain of Rings
- Motive and Motif
- The Fire That Purifies
- Flawless
- Talking Points, or Points Talking
- Once Upon a Time
- A Feinting Spell
- 5. Rich and Strange: To the End of the World and Back Again
- Compass
- Into the Sun
- L'Invitation au voyage
- The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
- To the Far Away
- Itinerary
- A Hitchcockian Passport
- Class
- Mystery
- Destinations
- 6. Legal Tender: Suspicion, Passion, Perplexity
- On the Rails
- Blithe Spirit
- Chance
- The Knot
- Tangmere Tangles
- Cary Grant's Grant
- Eccentricities
- All the News That Fits
- Diffident
- Innocent Men
- Riddle
- Three Paths to Happ enstance
- Left Behind
- Doubt
- Milk
- A Cinematic Gesture
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438485263
- 1438485263
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