The reader as peeping Tom : nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawthorn, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Series:Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy
  • Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist
  • The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee
  • Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage"
  • The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window
  • Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom
  • What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation
  • Conclusion.