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OverviewHenry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial control. Their fictions and films are obsessed with knowledge and its powers: who knows what? What is there to know?The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James. A wide-range of approaches offer fresh insights about spectatorship, narrative structure, and cinematic representation, as well as the relationship between technology and art, the powers of silence, sensory-and sensational-experiences, the impact of cognition, and the uncertainty of interpretation. The essays explore the avowal and disavowal of familial bonds, as well as questions of Victorian convention, female agency, and male anxiety. And they fruitfully engage issues related to patriarchy, colonialism, national, transnational, and global identities. The capacious collection, with its brilliant insights and intellectual surprises, is equally compelling in its range and cogency for James readers and film theorists, for Hitchcock fans and James scholars. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan M. Griffin (Justus Bier Professor of Humanities & Chair of the Department of English, Justus Bier Professor of Humanities & Chair of the Department of English, University of Louisville) , Alan Nadel (William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature & Culture, William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature & Culture, University of Kentucky)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.536kg ISBN: 9780199764426ISBN 10: 0199764425 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 March 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Susan Griffin and Alan Nadel: Reading James with Hitchcock, Reading Hitchcock with James Susan Griffin: National Bodies Brenda Austin-Smith: Secrets, Lies, and ""Virtuous Attachments"": The Ambassadors and The 39 Steps Brian T. Edwards: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock after the American Century: Circulation and Non-Return in The American Scene and Strangers on a Train Alan Nadel: Colonial Discourse and the Unheard Other in Washington Square and The Man Who Knew Too Much Mary Ann O'Farrell: Bump: Concussive Knowledge in James and Hitchcock Patrick O'Donnell: James's Birdcage/Hitchcock's Birds Donatella Izzo: Sounds of Silence in The Wings of the Dove and Blackmail Judith Roof: The Perfect Enigma Jonathan Freedman: Hands, Objects and Love in James and Hitchcock: Reading the Touch in The Golden Bowl and Notorious Eric Savoy: The Touch of the Real: Circumscribing Vertigo Aviva Briefel: Specters of Respectability: Victorian Horrors in The Turn of the Screw and Psycho John Carlos Rowe: Caged Heat: Feminist Rebellion in Henry James's In the Cage and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window Thomas B. Byers: Shadows of Modernity: What Maisie Knew and Shadow of a Doubt Mark Goble: Awkward Ages: James and Hitchcock In Between Works Cited Contributors Index"Reviews<br> Readers will be at once surprised and enlightened by the similarities discovered between Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock. These excellent essays persuasively and lucidly argue for a shared set of preoccupations in the works of the novelist and the filmmaker: preoccupations about personal and national identity, knowledge and authority, sexuality and gender. Each artist is shown to inspire new and important readings of the other. This is an original and highly readable contribution to literary and cultural studies. --Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley<p><br> To 'read' these artists in tandem is to appreciate not only the special achievement of each, but the way great artists pursue a dialogue across time, across media, that allows us to honor the distinctive quality of James's narratives from a cinematic perspective, and the roots of Hitchcock's cinematic triumphs in daring novelistic experiments. --Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University<p><br> Readers will be at once surprised and enlightened by the similarities discovered between Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock. These excellent essays persuasively and lucidly argue for a shared set of preoccupations in the works of the novelist and the filmmaker: preoccupations about personal and national identity, knowledge and authority, sexuality and gender. Each artist is shown to inspire new and important readings of the other. This is an original and highly readable contribution to literary and cultural studies. --Leo Bersani, University of California, Berkeley To 'read' these artists in tandem is to appreciate not only the special achievement of each, but the way great artists pursue a dialogue across time, across media, that allows us to honor the distinctive quality of James's narratives from a cinematic perspective, and the roots of Hitchcock's cinematic triumphs in daring novelistic experiments. --Lee Clark Mitchell, Princeton University Author InformationSusan Griffin is a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville. Alan Nadel is William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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