Hitchcock's Cryptonymies V2: Volume II. War Machines
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In the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock films a clay pigeon crossing the sky, a dark disc resembling a black sun. When the same work takes viewers into a temple for sun worshippers (it turns out to be a front for spies), another black orb is introduced: a black marble used to hypnotize initiates. Tom Cohen traces this motif--and many others--seeing it as an explicit challenge both to Enlightenment-era protocols of representation and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816641714
ISBN13:9780816641710
Release Date:June 2005
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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