Hitchcock's Motifs

Michael Walker

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Michael Walker

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2021
Print publication year:: 2005
Online ISBN:: 9789048505456
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048505456

Subjects:: Dance, Film, Music, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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Alfred Hitchcock’s films are renowned the world over, and a mountain of literature has detailed seemingly every facet of them. Yet remarkably few studies have solely focused on the recurring motifs in Hitchcock’s films. Michael Walker remedies this surprising gap in Hitchcock literature with an innovative and in-depth study of the sustained motifs and themes threaded through Hitchcock’s entire body of work. Combing through all fifty-two extant feature films and representative episodes from Hitchcock’s television series, Walker traces over forty motifs that emerge in recurring objects, settings, character-types, and events. Whether the loaded meaning of staircases, the symbolic status of keys and handbags, homoeroticism, guilt and confession, or the role of art, Walker analyzes such elements to reveal a complex web of cross-references in Hitchcock’s art. He also gives full attention to the broader social contexts in which the motifs and themes are played out, arguing that these interwoven elements add new and richer depths to Hitchcock’s oeuvre. An invaluable, encyclopedic resource for the scholar and fan, Hitchcock’s Motifs is a fascinating study of one of the best-known and most admired film directors in history.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Dedication
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-12

Acknowledgements
pp 13-14

Introduction
pp 15-22

Part I - Hitchcock, Motifs and Melodrama
pp 23-24

Introduction
pp 25-25

Three Motifs
pp 26-30

Melodrama and Hitchcock’s Motifs
pp 30-35

An Elaborated Motif: the Bed Scene in Rebecca and Marnie
pp 35-42

A Melodramatic Motif: Hands
pp 43-46

Diagrammatic Representations
pp 46-50

Overview of the key Motifs
pp 50-54

Part II - The Key Motifs
pp 55-56

Bed Scene
pp 57-68

Blondes and Brunettes
pp 69-86

Cameo Appearances
pp 87-97

Children
pp 98-110

Confined Spaces
pp 111-122

The Corpse
pp 123-141

Dogs and Cats
pp 142-145

Doubles
pp 146-153

Endings and the Police
pp 154-157

Entry Through a Window
pp 158-163

Exhibitionism / Voyeurism / the Look
pp 164-178

Food and Meals
pp 179-200

Guilt and Confession
pp 201-213

Handcuffs and Bondage
pp 214-219

Hands
pp 220-237

Heights and Falling
pp 238-247

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