Overview
- The only book entirely devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's Rope movie
- Written in a clear, engaging, and informative style that makes it suitable also for a non-academic readership
- Challenges some of the existing Hitchcock interpretations
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and of its multiple connections with the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s eponymous play.
As an all-encompassing portrait of the movie, the book discusses its aesthetics, style, role within cinema history, challenges in production, innovations introduced and of course Hitchcock’s signature features. However, as the analysis unfolds, the film reveals itself as an actual journey through the nightmares and the hopes that characterized the 20th century. Nazism and anti-Nazism, antisemitism, homophobia, democracy and totalitarianism, capital punishment and second chances, human rights, World War II, misogyny, tolerance and discrimination, Supermanism and humanism, artistic freedom and censorship. Subtly, often between the lines, and with Hitchcock's usual dark humor, Rope is nevertheless a much stronger social and political statementthan it was ever given credit for.
The Intertextual Knot is aimed at a varied readership, including film scholars, historians, philosophers and film enthusiasts.
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Book Title: The Intertextual Knot
Book Subtitle: An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope
Authors: Dario Martinelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85273-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85272-6Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85275-7Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85273-3Published: 31 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 176
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Semiotics, Cultural Studies