Journal article
Hitchcock: Past and Future
Hitchcock annual, p157
01 Jan 2003
Abstract
Adam Lowenstein, in "The Master, the Maniac, and Frenzy: Hitchcock's Legacy of Horror," does a nice job finessing vexed issues in Frenzy, suggesting that the film is not a vulgarization or diminishment of the Hitchcockian style, but rather an extension and complication of it, in keeping with a changing social context. There is also a charmingly macabre piece by Miron Bozovic, "Of 'Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living': Hitchcock and Bentham," comparing Jeremy Bentham's idea of the auto-icon (realized in his decision to have himself stuffed after his death) with Hitchcock's interest in taxidermy and particularly in the kind of representation of self that culminates in Norman Bates's image at the end of Psycho. Sinthoms, Zizek explains, are recurrent motifs-a person clinging to another's hand, a car at the edge of a precipice, a gothic house with long stairs, the image of a spiral-which "provide the specific flair, the substantial density of the cinematic texture of Hitchcock's films: without them, we would have a lifeless formal narrative" (262). Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University, is the author of five nonfiction books, including Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victonanism and Silent Film and the Tnumph of the Amencan Myth.
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- Title
- Hitchcock: Past and Future
- Creators
- Paula Cohen
- Publication Details
- Hitchcock annual, p157
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836494704721