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Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover)
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Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an
original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his
classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The
Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a
mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose
curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important
expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for
classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the
ways that Hitchcock's films convey mythical themes, patterns, and
symbols, though they do not overtly reference them. Hitchcock was a
modernist who used myth in unconscious ways as he sought to tell
effective stories in the film medium. This book treats four
representative films, each from a different decade of his early
career. The first two movies were produced in London: The Farmer's
Wife (1928) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); the second two in
Hollywood: Rebecca (1940) and Strangers on a Train (1951). In close
readings of these movies, Padilla discusses myths and literary
texts such as the Judgment of Paris, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter,
Aristophanes's Frogs, Apuleius's tale "Cupid and Psyche," Homer's
Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Additionally, many
Olympian deities and heroes have archetypal resonances in the films
in question. Padilla also presents a new reading of Hitchcock's
circumstances as he entered film work in 1920 and theorizes why and
how the films may be viewed as an expression of the classical
tradition and of classical reception. This new and important
contribution to the field of classical reception in the cinema will
be of great value to classicists, film scholars, and general
readers interested in these topics.
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