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Soul in Suspense
Neil P. Hurley
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Description for Soul in Suspense
Hardback. Num Pages: 404 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 603.
Neil Hurley demonstrates Hitchcock's covert preoccupation with spiritual themes—conscience, guilt, false accusation, crises as catalysts of character development, personal romance, the salvation of nations, and the "unjustly accused." This last theme is linked in profound ways to Hitchcock's secular Christ types, who find purpose and undiscovered courage and companionship in having to disprove falsely imputed guilt in I Confess, The Wrong Man, Veritgo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, and Frenzy. (The last three also feature feminine Christ parallels who undergo Passion/Resurrection experiences marked with visual religious clues.)
Neil Hurley demonstrates Hitchcock's covert preoccupation with spiritual themes—conscience, guilt, false accusation, crises as catalysts of character development, personal romance, the salvation of nations, and the "unjustly accused." This last theme is linked in profound ways to Hitchcock's secular Christ types, who find purpose and undiscovered courage and companionship in having to disprove falsely imputed guilt in I Confess, The Wrong Man, Veritgo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, and Frenzy. (The last three also feature feminine Christ parallels who undergo Passion/Resurrection experiences marked with visual religious clues.)
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810825260
SKU
V9780810825260
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99-15
About Neil P. Hurley
A Jesuit priest for 33 years, Fr. Neil Hurley, SJ spent 18 years studying abroad. He has written 135 articles and 5 communication books and has taught at Fordham, Notre Dame, the National and Catholic Universities of Santiago de Chile, Florida State Universitym University of San Francisco, Loyola University (New Orleans), and the Cinema/TV School, University of Southern California (1991). In 1963, he founded INSCAPE, devoted to "adding value" to mass culture experiences. Soul in Suspense is such an exercise in "edu-tainment," greater delight through insight.
Reviews for Soul in Suspense
Hurley...puts a different spin on Hitchcock. Soul in Suspense is an unusual book, a careful, thoughtful, different look at the man who made films that stand up th anything being made today, movies that were very special, indeed.
Coast Book Review Service
...illuminated the subtext of Hitch's work with a depth that the customary glib Catholic=guilt=the movies formulation doesn't reach....book becomes a reference point on Hitchcock that no one interested in him or writing about his work can afford to overlook....
Charles Champlin ...demonstrate[s] detailed knowledge of the films, mature (vs. trendy) insightfulness, and, above all, a devotion that reveals itself in lucid prose.
Hitchcock Annual
...has a valued place in the extensive research on film director Alfred Hitchcock....This book is valuable to the serious student both through the text's commentary on Hitchcock's many films...as well as through its data.
CHOICE
Anyone who is interested in Hitchcock's works will find plenty to ruminate upon in Soul in Suspense.
American Cinematographer
...it is a riveting study which, almost impossibly, finds original comments to make on the work of a director who has been over-analyzed. Adding value to the book are a 1972 interview with Hitchcock in which he discusses his early years; the comments of the priest who taught the boy Hitchcock...
Classic Images
...a reference point on Hitchcock that no one interested in him or writing about his work can afford to overlook.
L A Times
Coast Book Review Service
...illuminated the subtext of Hitch's work with a depth that the customary glib Catholic=guilt=the movies formulation doesn't reach....book becomes a reference point on Hitchcock that no one interested in him or writing about his work can afford to overlook....
Charles Champlin ...demonstrate[s] detailed knowledge of the films, mature (vs. trendy) insightfulness, and, above all, a devotion that reveals itself in lucid prose.
Hitchcock Annual
...has a valued place in the extensive research on film director Alfred Hitchcock....This book is valuable to the serious student both through the text's commentary on Hitchcock's many films...as well as through its data.
CHOICE
Anyone who is interested in Hitchcock's works will find plenty to ruminate upon in Soul in Suspense.
American Cinematographer
...it is a riveting study which, almost impossibly, finds original comments to make on the work of a director who has been over-analyzed. Adding value to the book are a 1972 interview with Hitchcock in which he discusses his early years; the comments of the priest who taught the boy Hitchcock...
Classic Images
...a reference point on Hitchcock that no one interested in him or writing about his work can afford to overlook.
L A Times