Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films /
This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock, The 39 Steps, Saboteur and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry and philosoph...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The 39 steps' reception of Homer's Odyssey : modernist myth via John Buchan and Gilbert Murray
- Saboteur and the British museum's Parthenon sculptures : Athena, Hephaestus, and Poseidon as models for Pat, Barry, and Tobin
- North by northwest's receptions of Oedipus : Campbell, Freud, Nietzsche, and Sophocles
- Dial M for murder as the net of Hephaestus : untangling the mythic imagination of Frederick Knott
- Rear window's seductions : the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite and Sirius' dog star ritualism
- To catch a thief's vacation on France's Côte d'Azur : maenads, Dionysian actors, and Plato's Sôphrôsyne.