Mark William Padilla

Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498563529
• ISBN-10: 149856352X
• Artikelnr.: 71810994

Autorenporträt

Mark W. Padilla is distinguished professor of classical studies at Christopher Newport University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of the Feature Films of Alfred Hitchcock
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One: Three Wrong Man Films
Chapter One: The 39 Steps' Reception of Homer's Odyssey: Modernist Myth via
John Buchan and Gilbert Murray
Chapter Two: Saboteur and the British Museum's Parthenon Sculptures:
Athena, Hephaestus, and Poseidon as Models for Pat, Barry, and Tobin
Chapter Three: North by Northwest's Receptions of Oedipus: Campbell, Freud,
Nietzsche, and Sophocles
Part Two: The Three Grace Kelly Films
Chapter Four: Dial M for Murder as the Net of Hephaestus: Untangling the
Mythic Imagination of Frederick "Knott"
Chapter Five: Rear Window's Seductions: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and
Sirius' Dog Star Ritualism
Chapter Six: To Catch a Thief's Vacation on France's Côte d'Azur: Maenads,
Dionysian Actors, and Plato's Sôphrôsyne
Bibliography
Index