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Book/Printed Material Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread

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Title

  • Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread

Summary

  • "The first book-length study of director Alfred Hitchcock to consider how his struggles with weight and size found their expression in his cinema and in his creative life"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • McKittrick, Casey, author.

Created / Published

  • New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]

Contents

  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Hitchcock's Hollywood Diet -- Chapter 2: Appetite, Temporality, and Consequence in Rear Window: Another Impulse of Voyeurism -- Chapter 3: The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic Belonging -- Chapter 4: The Ins and Outs of Hitchcockian Consumption: Some Notes on His Cinematic Uses of Food and Drink -- Chapter 5: Children and the Challenge of Fat Masculinity -- Chapter 6: Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of Fatness -- Epilogue.

Headings

  • -  Hitchcock, Alfred,--1899-1980--Health
  • -  Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography
  • -  Obesity
  • -  PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  • -  PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts)

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 11/18/2020)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN1998.3.H58

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015047482

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Mckittrick, Casey, Author. Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread. [New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015047482/.

APA citation style:

McKittrick, C. (2016) Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread. [New York: Bloomsbury Academic] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015047482/.

MLA citation style:

Mckittrick, Casey, Author. Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread. [New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2015047482/>.