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Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy Of Victorianism,New
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This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Marantz Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best filmsShadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psychoas well as some of his more uneven onesRope, The Wrong Man, Topazand makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society.Drawing on a number of methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis, and family systems, the author provides an insightful look at the paradox of a Victorianstyle gentleman who evolved into one of the leading masters of the modern medium of film. Cohen posits that Hitchcock's films are, in part, a masculine response to the domestic, psychological novels that had appealed primarily to women during the Victorian era. His career, she argues, can be seen as an attempt to balance 'the two faces of Victorianism': the masculine legacy of law and hierarchy and the feminine legacy of feeling and imagination.Cohen asserts that Hitchcock's films reflect his Victorian legacy and serve as a map for ideological trends. She charts his development from his British period through his classic Hollywood years into his later phase, tracing a conceptual evolution that corresponds to an evolution in cultural identityone that builds on a Victorian inheritance and ultimately discards it.
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