Book chapter
The Emergence of Mother: Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock, p142
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
During the 1950s, Hitchcock cast Cary Grant and James Stewart in parts ostensibly designed for younger men. (InNorth by Northwest,for example, Grant is actually older than the actress who plays his mother.) The disparity in age between the male lead and the female in the 1950s was the logical extrapolation of the father-daughter dynamic. And Hitchcock’s personal relationships to the actresses Vera Miles and Tippi Hedren in the late 1950s and early 1960s reflect a similar extrapolation: these women were the age of his daughter and were chosen as protégées to be molded by him into leading ladies,
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- Title
- The Emergence of Mother
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Alfred Hitchcock, p142
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836219004721