Hitchcock's Cryptonymies V2: Volume II. War Machines

by Tom Cohen

Book Overview

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"