Hitchcock and Philosophy : Dial M for Metaphysics.
Title:
Hitchcock and Philosophy : Dial M for Metaphysics.
Author:
Baggett, David.
ISBN:
9780812697834
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Series:
Popular Culture and Philosophy ; v.27
Popular Culture and Philosophy
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- I The Mystery of Everyday Life -- 1 Sabotage: Chaos Unleashed and the Impossibility of Utopia -- 2 Shadow of a Doubt: Secrets, Lies, and the Search for the Truth -- 3 Rope: Nietsche and the Art of Murder -- II Horrors without End -- 4 Psycho: Horror, Hitchcock, and the Problem of Evil -- 5 The Birds: Plato and Romantic Love -- 6 Featherless Bipeds: The Concept of Humanity in The Birds -- 7 Hitchcock's Existentialism: Anguish, Despair, and Redemption in Breakdown -- III The Reeling Mind -- 8 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love -- 9 Vertigo: Scientific Method, Obsession, and Human Minds -- 10 On Being Mr. Kaplan: Personal Identity in North by Northwest -- 11 Ethics or Film Theory? The Real McGruffin in North by Northwest -- IV Hitchcock's Ethical Dilemmas -- 12 Democracy Adrift in Lifeboat -- 13 Why Be Moral? Amorality and Psychopath in Strangers on a Train -- 14 Rear Window: Hitchcock's Allegory of the Cave -- 15 Rear Window: Looking at Things Ethically -- V What's It All About, Alfred? -- 16 Plot Twists and Surprises: Why Are Some things Improbable? -- 17 The Hitchcock Cameo: Aesthetic Considerations -- 18 Knowing When to Be Afraid: Rationality and Suspense -- 19 Shadow of a Doubt and Marnie: Entries into a Mind -- Cast and Crew -- Index.
Abstract:
The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; innocent" birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives. But what makes them so? What deeper forces are at work in Hitchcock's films that so captivate his fans? This collection of articles in the series that's explored such pop-culture phenomena as Seinfeld and The Simpsons examines those forces with fresh eyes. These essays demonstrate a fascinating range of topics: Sabotage's lessons about the morality of terrorism and counter-terrorism; Rope's debatable Nietzschean underpinnings; Strangers on a Train's definition of morality. Some of the essays look at more overarching questions, such as why Hitchcock relies so heavily on the Freudian unconscious. In all, the book features 18 philosophers paying a special homage to the legendary auteur in a way that's accessible even to casual fans.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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