No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock; and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock; D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcockrsquo;s movies; a secret style that imbues his films with a radical duplicity.Focusing on three filmsmdash;Strangers on a Train; Rope; and The Wrong Manmdash;Miller shows how Hitchcock anticipates; even demands a ldquo;Too-Close Viewer.rdquo; Dwelling within us all and vigilant even when everything appears to be in good order; this Too-Close Viewer attempts to see more than the director points out; to expand the space of the film and the duration of the viewing experience. And; thanks to Hidden Hitchcock; that obsessive attention is rewarded. In Hitchcockrsquo;s visual puns; his so-called continuity errors; and his hidden appearances (not to be confused with his cameos); Miller finds wellsprings of enigma.Hidden Hitchcock is a revelatory work that not only shows how little we know this best known of filmmakers; but also how near such too-close viewing comes to cinephilic madness.
2016-08-19 2016-08-19File Name: B01JBEN58E
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