Is Hitchcock a superficial; though brilliant; entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the directors work; Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcocks characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller; and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the directors English and American periods; Allen explores the filmmakers adoption of the idioms of late romanticism; his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense; and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. limited history of rolesBy W BoudvilleOn the American stage. Lee contends that a relatively underserved topic has been the Asian American experience. As expressed in the ethnicity of the actors or in the subject material. Her book fleshes out in much detail this thesis.Describing the paucity of roles available to Asian actors. for example.To the extent that Asians have been depicted on stage. she also delves into how these roles were often stereotypical. Rarely did two things happen. That an Asian role would appear in a play. And that the role would be meaningful and original.
