Hitchcock's Objects As Subjects
Subtitle: The Significance of Things on Screen
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780786443086
Subjects: Hitchcock, alfred, 1899-1980
Description: "Focusing on onscreen objects in Hitchcock's films, this study examines the staircases, eyeglasses, lamps, doors, candles, cigarettes, buildings, monuments, statues and other props the director treated as subjective protagonists, with roles nearly equal to the actors' parts. Examining each of the director's 52 extant films, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of Hitchcock's treatment of objects as subjects"--