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Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies v1: Volume 1. Secret Agents
Tom Cohen
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Description for Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies v1: Volume 1. Secret Agents
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 42ill. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Tom Cohen’s radical exploration of Hitchcock’s cinema departs from conventional approaches—psychoanalytic, feminist, political—to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings inscribed on and around his films. Aligning Hitchcock’s agenda with the philosophical and aesthetic writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Benjamin, Cohen's project dramatically recasts the history and meaning of cinema itself.This first volume of Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies provides a singularly close reading of films such as The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound, and North by Northwest, exposing the often imperceptible visual and aural puns, graphic elements, and cryptograms that traverse his entire body of work. Within Hitchcock’s cinema, Cohen argues, these "secret ... Read more
Tom Cohen’s radical exploration of Hitchcock’s cinema departs from conventional approaches—psychoanalytic, feminist, political—to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings inscribed on and around his films. Aligning Hitchcock’s agenda with the philosophical and aesthetic writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Benjamin, Cohen's project dramatically recasts the history and meaning of cinema itself.This first volume of Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies provides a singularly close reading of films such as The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound, and North by Northwest, exposing the often imperceptible visual and aural puns, graphic elements, and cryptograms that traverse his entire body of work. Within Hitchcock’s cinema, Cohen argues, these "secret ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642069
SKU
V9780816642069
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