Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-47554-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Debbie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Hitchcock's Children; Debbie Olson 1. Hitchcock's Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address; Noel Brown 2. "The Future's Not Ours to See": How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock's American Movies; Jason McEntee 3. The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956); Elizabeth Ramsey 4. No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage; Peter Lee 5. "If You Ripped the Fronts Off Houses": Killing Innocence in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt; Markus Bohlmann and Sean Moreland 6. Daddy's Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train; Brian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy 7. Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry; Adrian Schober 8. Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Hitchcock's Marnie and The Birds; F. E. Pheasant-Kelly 9. The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds; Samantha Lay 10. "It's the End of the World!": Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and the Evil Children Film; Craig Martin 11. Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema; Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 12. Hitchcock's Stylized Capture of Post-Adolescent Fatheads; William McBride

Über Autor(innen)

Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK
Jason McEntee, South Dakota State University, USA
Markus Bohlmann, Seneca College, Canada
Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa, Canada
Adrian Schober, Monash University, Australia
Brian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, USA
F.E. Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Samantha Lay, University of Houston, USA
Craig Martin, La Trobe University, Australia
William McBride, Illinois State University, USA
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, USA
Peter Lee, Drew University, USA
Elizabeth Ramsey, University of Southern California, USA