![]() ![]() Though the man shows himself hastily retreating from the social field, its demands and norms remain in force to determine the substance and style of the work. And yet for all that, Hitchcock’s antisocial malice must generally strike us as pretty mild, even jovial. The Hitchcock cameo always implies, along with his social abjection, the sado-artistic revenge he is taking for it from the pinnacle of cinematic mastery. The homely fat man who appears onscreen only to decamp straightaway, as if he knew he were hopelessly out of place amongst cinema’s beautiful people, is also the magisterial Auteur whose invisible hand has put these people in place-and will be bringing some of them, qua characters, to places they would never choose to be. Hitchcock is a famous-and self-conscious-case in point. Public Style, Secret Styleīehind the impersonal detachment of a sovereign stylist, there often stands a damaged or disparaged person. Instead I present a short dossier of the key conceptions, forms, devices, and materials that will be set to work (harmoniously or not) in the essays to follow. And so I refrain here from offering a comprehensive summary that might eliminate any apparent need to read beyond it. It’s as if I had one extra sense, one more than the others have, but not completely developed, a sense that’s there and makes itself noticed, but doesn’t function.Įven a work of criticism may be in danger of spoilers sometimes, the less you know from the trailer, the better. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). | Motion pictures.Ĭlassification: LCC PN1998.3.H | DDC 791.4302/33092-dc23 LC record available at Subjects: LCSH: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899–1980. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataĭescription: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Miller is professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of Chicago Press | Chicago and Londonĭ. ![]() Hidden Hitchcock is a revelatory work that not only shows how little we know this best known of filmmakers, but also how near such too-close viewing comes to cinephilic madness. ![]() In Hitchcock’s visual puns, his so-called continuity errors, and his hidden appearances (not to be confused with his cameos), Miller finds wellsprings of enigma. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcock’s movies, a secret style that imbues his films with a radical duplicity.įocusing on three films- Strangers on a Train, Rope, and The Wrong Man-Miller shows how Hitchcock anticipates, even demands, a “Too-Close Viewer.” Dwelling within us all and vigilant even when everything appears to be in good order, this Too-Close Viewer attempts to see more than the director points out, to expand the space of the film and the duration of the viewing experience. And, thanks to Hidden Hitchcock, that obsessive attention is rewarded. No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. “A way to rethink the ways we watch and engage with all films, not just the Hitchcockian ones.”- Popmatters ![]()
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