Hitchcock's Cryptonymies V1: Volume 1. Secret Agents

by Tom Cohen

Book Overview

Tom Cohen's radical exploration of Hitchcock's cinema departs from conventional approaches--psychoanalytic, feminist, political--to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings inscribed on and around his films. Aligning Hitchcock's agenda with the philosophical and aesthetic writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Benjamin, Cohen's project dramatically recasts the history and meaning of cinema itself.This first volume of Hitchcock's Cryptonymies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642060
• ISBN13: 9780816642069
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"