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Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread de Casey McKittrick

Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread

Autor Casey McKittrick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2018
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.In Hitchcock's Appetites, Casey McKittrick offers the first book-length study of the relationship between Hitchcock's body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colorful anecdotes of his private life, McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock's films, his creative process, and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man.Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration, and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique, and theories of embodiment, Hitchcock's Appetites produces a new and compelling profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501339561
ISBN-10: 1501339567
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Situates Hitchcock and his oeuvre at the crossroads of Auteurism, Feminist and Queer Film Theories of the Body, Identification, and Desire, parsing the various ideologies and fantasies that comprised Hitchcock's cinematic motives and shaped his public persona

Notă biografică

Casey McKittrick is an Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He regularly teaches courses in Film Interpretation, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, African American Literature, and American Literature surveys. He has published essays in The Velvet Light Trap, the anthologies Writing as Re-Vision and Porn and Philosophy, and reviews in several film and gender studies journals.

Cuprins

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 Hitchcock's Hollywood DietChapter 2 The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic BelongingChapter 3 The Pleasures and Pangs of Hitchcockian ConsumptionChapter 4 Appetite and Temporality in Rear Window: Another Aspect of VoyeurismChapter 5 Childhood and the Challenge of Fat MasculinityChapter 6 Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of FatnessEpilogueEnhanced FilmographyBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Deliciously fat with insights into Alfred Hitchcock's life and work, this book is about so many other things, too: appetite, weight, the body, gender, sexuality, childhood, the cinema. Casey McKittrick argues in this tantalizing study that we cannot fully grasp Hitchcock's film oeuvre without examining his life as a fat man. Drawing on fat studies as well as queer theory, McKittrick adds depth and nuance to our picture of the great director and his legendary appetites-and to our collective appetite for him. Highly recommended
The provocative relationship between cinematic form and the authorial body is pleasurably realized in Casey McKittrick's Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread. Through a seductive theoretical dance and a plunge into persuasive close readings, McKittrick guides us along the biographical and aesthetic contours that give shape to Alfred Hitchcock's highly recognizable body, a large and distinctive body that intimately commingles with his body of work. Rethinking "appetite" as visceral desire, Hitchcock's Appetites delights in the director's "fatness"-his queerness to be sure-so as to draw out the sensual possibilities that fold the auteur and cinematic aesthetics into one another.
A superb appreciation of Hitchcock's appetites, a brilliant analysis of corporeality in the corpus of Hitchcock films, this exquisitely written and methodologically innovative book satisfies as it induces hunger. McKittrick moves adroitly between Hitchcock's household meal plans, the archive of his relationships with Hollywood stars and producers, virtuosic readings of the films themselves, the problems of embodiment in queer theory, and the promise of fat studies to write the definitive Hitchcock book for our times.