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[Commlist] New book on Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt

Wed Apr 07 20:52:25 GMT 2021






*New book: */*Shadow of a Doubt* <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/>/* by Diana Negra*

/Shadow of a Doubt <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/>///(1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcock’s sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite and his best. This book redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to /Shadow/ even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship.

Analysing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and ‘family values’, Diane Negra shows how the film’s impeccable narrative structure is wedded to radical ideological content, linking the film’s terrors to the punishing effects of looking beyond conventional family and gender roles. This book understands /Shadow/ as an unconventionally female-centred Hitchcock text and a milestone film that marks the director’s emergent engagement with the pathologies of violence in American life and opens a window into the placement of femininity in World War II consensus culture and more broadly into the politics of mid-century gender and family life.

Pre-order online for a 30% discount <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/> – use discount code SHADOW30 at check-out.

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