Hitchcock as Philosopher

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de Robert J. Yanal

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Mots Clés

Alfred Hitchcock, philosophy, director

Année d'édition

2005

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 216 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7864-2281-5
978-0-7864-2281-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
The films of Alfred Hitchcock deal heavily with psychological and philosophical themes, and one needn’t look very far into the canon to find them. In Psycho, for example, the personality metamorphosis in Marion Crane that leads her into grand larceny is a pale double of the murderous oedipal divide in Norman Bates. In The Birds, overbearing natural mutations turn what might have been a “creature feature” into a film about fear of the unknowable.

This book looks at 12 Hitchcock films and the positions they put forth on three problem areas of epistemology: deception, knowledge of mind, and problematic knowledge of the external world. These philosophical concepts are explained and woven into the author’s thorough and thought-provoking discussion of each film. Descartes and Wittengenstein star; Plato, Locke, Hume, Kant and Kierkegaard also make appearances in this new “philosopher’s cut” of the master’s works.

À propos de l'auteur :
Robert J. Yanal is emeritus professor of philosophy at Wayne State University, Detroit. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Revue de Presse:
"well written"—Philosophy Now; "a refreshingly straightforward, engaging volume"—Hitchcock Annual.

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