The intertextual knot : an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope / Dario Martinelli.

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The intertextual knot : an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope / Dario Martinelli.

9783030852733 (electronic bk.)
3030852733 (electronic bk.)
9783030852726
3030852725

Cham : Springer, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

10.1007/978-3-030-85273-3 doi

PN1997.R66 M37 2021

791.43/72

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 Hamiltons 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 Hitchcocks 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 statement than 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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