Book chapter
The Daughter’s Effect: Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alfred Hitchcock
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
In trying to position Hitchcock with respect to his time, one is drawn in two directions. He was at once a latter-day “eminent Victorian,” the stereotype of bourgeois caution and conventionality that Lytton Strachey and fellow modernists satirized and relegated to the dust-heap of culture. By the same token, in choosing film, the medium that “had superseded the novel in line with historical necessity,”¹ Hitchcock was more modern than Strachey and his circle, who remained attached to the written word.
The difficulty of locating Hitchcock is compounded further by the way in which he conceived of the cinematic with respect
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Details
- Title
- The Daughter’s Effect
- 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
- 991020836365604721