Hitchcock's Objects as Subjects

The Significance of Things on Screen

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by Marc Raymond Strauss

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Keywords

Alfred Hitchcock, objects

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 204 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-4308-6

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Book Presentation:
Alfred Hitchcock’s imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and acting were, for him, subordinate to “all of the technical aspects that made the audience scream.” Focusing on onscreen objects in Hitchcock’s films, this study examines staircases, eyeglasses, lamps, doors, candles, cigarettes, buildings, monuments, statues and dozens of other props that the director treated as subjective protagonists, their roles nearly equal to the actors’. Examining each of the director’s 52 extant films, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of Hitchcock’s treatment of objects as subjects.

About the Author:
Marc Raymond Strauss is a professor emeritus of theater and dance from Southeast Missouri State University.

Press Reviews:
"an exhaustive study of all 52 of Alfred Hitchcock’s films"—Journal of American Studies Association of Texas.

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