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Intimate Violence - Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Hardcover)
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Intimate Violence - Hitchcock, Sex, and Queer Theory (Hardcover)
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Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's
films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters,
usually though not always male. Decentering the authority of the
male hero, Hitchcock's films allow his female and queer characters
to vie for narrative power, often in conflict with one another.
These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and
queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, David
Greven merges queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock. Using the
theories of Melanie Klein, Greven argues that Hitchcock's work
thematizes a constant battle between desires to injure and to
repair the loved object. Greven develops a theory of sexual
hegemony. The feminine versus the queer conflict, as he calls it,
in Hitchcock films illuminates the shared but rivalrous struggles
for autonomy and visibility on the part of female and queer
subjects. The heroine is vulnerable to misogyny, but she often
gains an access to agency that the queer subject longs for,
mistaking her partial autonomy for social power. Hitchcock's queer
personae, however, wield a seductive power over his heterosexual
subjects, having access to illusion and masquerade that the
knowledge-seeking heroine must destroy. Freud's theory of paranoia,
understood as a tool for the dissection of cultural homophobia,
illuminates the feminine versus the queer conflict, the female
subject position, and the consistent forms of homoerotic antagonism
in the Hitchcock film. Through close readings of such key Hitchcock
works as North by Northwest, Psycho, Strangers on a Train,
Spellbound, Rope, Marnie, and The Birds, Greven explores the
ongoing conflicts between the heroine and queer subjects and the
simultaneous allure and horror of same-sex relationships in the
director's films.
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