174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel like and how the erotic can be expressed.
The erotic is a pervasive phenomenon in Hitchcock’s films. It involves irony, play, and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Philosophies of Eros
3. Hitchcockian Hermeneutics: How the Non-Duped Err and the (Non-)Duped Can Not Err
4. The Erotic Hitchcock
5. The Existential Eros of Anguish
6. Erotic Losses and Wins: Readings of Vertigo and North by Northwest
7. Hitchcock on Erotic Failure and Success, Part II: Marnie
Conclusion: Going to the Transferential End with Hitchcock
Biography
Richard Gilmore is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. He is the author of Emerson as Philosopher: Postmodernism and Beyond (2023), Searching for Wisdom in Movies: From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations (2016), and Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein’s Method in Philosophical Investigations (1999).
