Hidden Hitchcock

Hidden Hitchcock is two things: a book about the hidden poetics of the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, and a confession by Miller as he finds himself lured into Hitchcock?s ineffable web. Technology has helped Miller pinpoint a secret and baffling film recessed alongside the easily identifiable habits of Hitchcock?s trademark suspense. These are the Hidden Pictures that Miller has unearthed. In exploring Hitch?s latent vision, Miller has many discoveries to share: non-narrative microstructures that he points out for the first time: the second Hitchcock cameo (not the one we are trained to spot), the verbal-to-visual charade, the faux continuity error, to name a few. Their general purpose seems to insinuate a game of hide-and-seek that, until the viewer finds one of these Hidden Pictures, s/he may never know is in play. Through Hitchcock?s hidden style, we confront a resistance to meaning so deep-seated that it seems less a project than a compulsion (a psychic drive); and so anti-social that to redeem it by assigning it a point risks missing the point.

Year

2016

Language

English

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Editions

5

Pages

208

ISBN

9780226374673

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