Hitchcock's Appetites

The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread

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by Casey McKittrick

Type: Essays
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, authorship
Publishing date: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English

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Hardcover • 208 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5013-1165-9

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Book Presentation:
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. In Hitchcock’s Appetites, Casey McKittrick offers the first book-length study of the relationship between Hitchcock’s body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colorful anecdotes of his private life, McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock’s films, his creative process, and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man. Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration, and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique, and theories of embodiment, Hitchcock’s Appetites produces a new and compelling profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.

About the Author:
Casey McKittrick is an Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University, USA. He regularly teaches courses in Film Interpretation, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, African American Literature, and American Literature surveys. He has published essays in The Velvet Light Trap, the anthologies Writing as Re-Vision and Porn and Philosophy, and reviews in several film and gender studies journals. He is also the author of the screenplay Pray for Me (acquired by Chaos Productions in 2013), the TV pilot Destiny Design. His first novel Murder on Faux Pas Island will be available May 2015.

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