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Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies v2: Volume II. War Machines
Tom Cohen
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Description for Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies v2: Volume II. War Machines
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 42ill. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
In the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock films a clay pigeon crossing the sky, a dark disc resembling a black sun. When the same work takes viewers into a temple for sun worshippers (it turns out to be a front for spies), another black orb is introduced: a black marble used to hypnotize initiates. Tom Cohen traces this motif—and many others—seeing it as an explicit challenge both to Enlightenment-era protocols of representation and to the auteurism that has defined studies of Hitchcock. This second volume of Hitchcock’s Cryptonomies presents the director’s works as a radical collage ... Read more
In the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock films a clay pigeon crossing the sky, a dark disc resembling a black sun. When the same work takes viewers into a temple for sun worshippers (it turns out to be a front for spies), another black orb is introduced: a black marble used to hypnotize initiates. Tom Cohen traces this motif—and many others—seeing it as an explicit challenge both to Enlightenment-era protocols of representation and to the auteurism that has defined studies of Hitchcock. This second volume of Hitchcock’s Cryptonomies presents the director’s works as a radical collage ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641710
SKU
V9780816641710
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