Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
In Hitchcock's Appetites, Casey McKittrick offers the first book-length study of the relationship between Hitchcock's body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colorful anecdotes of his private life, McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock's films, his creative process, and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man.
Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration, and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique, and theories of embodiment, Hitchcock's Appetites produces a new and compelling profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.
Call number in WMU's library
PN1998.3.H58 M45 2016
ISBN
978-1501311659
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
City
New York
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Film and Media Studies
Citation for published book
McKittrick, Casey. Hitchcock's Appetites : The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread / Casey McKittrick. 2016. Print.
Recommended Citation
McKittrick, Casey, "Hitchcock's Appetites: The Corpulent Plots of Desire and Dread" (2016). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 610.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/610