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The Men Who Knew Too Much - Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, New)
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The Men Who Knew Too Much - Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, New)
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Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles
fully in the know, they approached American and European society as
inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double
vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences,
prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and
meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial
control. Their fictions and films are obsessed with knowledge and
its powers: who knows what? What is there to know?
The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats,
showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen
major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in
paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading
James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us
about reading James. A wide-range of approaches offer fresh
insights about spectatorship, narrative structure, and cinematic
representation, as well as the relationship between technology and
art, the powers of silence, sensory-and sensational-experiences,
the impact of cognition, and the uncertainty of interpretation. The
essays explore the avowal and disavowal of familial bonds, as well
as questions of Victorian convention, female agency, and male
anxiety. And they fruitfully engage issues related to patriarchy,
colonialism, national, transnational, and global identities. The
capacious collection, with its brilliant insights and intellectual
surprises, is equally compelling in its range and cogency for James
readers and film theorists, for Hitchcock fans and James scholars.
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