Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (Film and Culture Series)

by RAllen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $31.98

  Argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance. The author describes how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller.