Book chapter
Digression: Rope, I Confess
Alfred Hitchcock
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
It is a commonplace in film theory that the woman in classical narrative film performs the role of the object of the male gaze, “the ground of representation, the looking glass held up to men.”¹ Hitchcock’s films of the Hollywood period are primary examples referred to by the pioneers of this theory. They point to his preference for the chiseled blond, a cultural stereotype of female desirability, and to the manner in which he filmed women during his Hollywood period: a fetishistic concentration on parts of the female body and on female accessories, and prolonged close-ups of the female face.
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Details
- Title
- Digression
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836327504721