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Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, de Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin (Paper
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- Condition
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- 9780292756762
- ISBN
- 0292756763
- Binding
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- Book Title
- Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, de Palma,
- Subject Area
- Performing Arts
- Publication Name
- Psycho-Sexual : Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Subject
- Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 311 Pages
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Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hollywood--Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin--whose work suggests the pornographic male gaze that emerged in Hitchcock's depiction of the voyeuristic, homoerotically inclined American man. Combining queer theory with a psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven begins with a reconsideration of Psycho and the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much to introduce the filmmaker's evolutionary development of American masculinity. Psycho-Sexual probes De Palma's early Vietnam War draft-dodger comedies as well as his film Dressed to Kill , along with Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Friedkin's Cruising as reactions to and inventive elaborations upon Hitchcock's gendered themes and aesthetic approaches. Greven demonstrates how the significant political achievement of these films arises from a deeply disturbing, violent, even sorrowful psychological and social context. Engaging with contemporary theories of pornography while establishing pornography's emergence during the classical Hollywood era, Greven argues that New Hollywood filmmakers seized upon Hitchcock's radical decentering of heterosexual male dominance. The resulting images of heterosexual male ambivalence allowed for an investment in same-sex desire; an aura of homophobia became informed by a fascination with the homoerotic. Psycho-Sexual also explores the broader gender crisis and disorganization that permeated the Cold War and New Hollywood eras, reimagining the defining premises of Hitchcock criticism.
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University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292756763
ISBN-13
9780292756762
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Psycho-Sexual : Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
311 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.M46
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Anyone interested in intelligent, insightful film criticism will find much to admire in the close analysis on display here., Like the best critical studies, Greven incisively cuts (or, with these particular films, slashes) in multiple directions at once: gender studies (masculinity as well as feminism); queer studies; (adeptly revised) psychoanalytic film theories; and historical context, all supported by close readings that deftly defamiliarize much discussed work (like Psycho , Taxi Driver , and Cruising ) while also satisfyingly exhuming neglected others (e.g., De Palma's early comedies., Like the best critical studies, Greven incisively cuts (or, with these particular films, slashes) in multiple directions at once: gender studies (masculinity as well as feminism); queer studies; (adeptly revised) psychoanalytic film theories; and historical context, all supported by close readings that deftly defamiliarize much discussed work (like Psycho,Taxi Driver, andCruising) while also satisfyingly exhuming neglected others (e.g., De Palma's early comedies., By placing text before theory, Greven's labored, good-faith book stands higher than merely auteur appreciation: It demands serious consideration across many disciplinary planes, both historic and theoretical, as an exemplary, immanently readable call for serious, revisionist film-studies texts, while serving as one itself.Greven takes a sustained look at the psychosexual dynamics of masculine desire found in two generations of American filmmakers...The author's nuanced readings suggest how profoundly Hitchcock influenced his successors...Summing Up: Recommended., Like the best critical studies, Greven incisively cuts (or, with these particular films, slashes) in multiple directions at once: gender studies (masculinity as well as feminism); queer studies; (adeptly revised) psychoanalytic film theories; and historical context, all supported by close readings that deftly defamiliarize much discussed work (likePsycho,Taxi Driver, andCruising) while also satisfyingly exhuming neglected others (e.g., De Palma's early comedies., By placing text before theory, Greven's labored, good-faith book stands higher than merely auteur appreciation: It demands serious consideration across many disciplinary planes, both historic and theoretical, as an exemplary, immanently readable call for serious, revisionist film-studies texts, while serving as one itself., Greven takes a sustained look at the psychosexual dynamics of masculine desire found in two generations of American filmmakers...The author's nuanced readings suggest how profoundly Hitchcock influenced his successors...Summing Up: Recommended., Like the best critical studies, Greven incisively cuts (or, with these particular films, slashes) in multiple directions at once: gender studies (masculinity as well as feminism); queer studies; (adeptly revised) psychoanalytic film theories; and historical context, all supported by close readings that deftly defamiliarize much discussed work (like Psycho, Taxi Driver, and Cruising) while also satisfyingly exhuming neglected others (e.g., De Palma's early comedies.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction. Hitchcock, Gender, and the New Hollywood Chapter One. Cruising, Hysteria, Knowledge: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Chapter Two. "You Are Alone Here, Aren't You?": Psycho 's Doubles Chapter Three. Blank Screens: Psycho and the Pornographic Gaze Chapter Four. Misfortune and Men's Eyes: Three Early De Palma Comedies Chapter Five. A Sense of Vertigo : Taxi Driver Chapter Six. Mirror Shades: Cruising Chapter Seven. The Gender Museum: Dressed to Kill Coda: Ideology at an Impasse Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
791.43/653
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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