Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-360) and index.
Contents:
The 39 steps' reception of Homer's Odyssey : modernist myth via John Buchan and Gilbert Murray -- Saboteur and the British museum's Parthenon sculptures : Athena, Hephaestus, and Poseidon as models for Pat, Barry, and Tobin -- North by northwest's receptions of Oedipus : Campbell, Freud, Nietzsche, and Sophocles -- Dial M for murder as the net of Hephaestus : untangling the mythic imagination of Frederick Knott -- Rear window's seductions : the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite and Sirius' dog star ritualism -- To catch a thief's vacation on France's Côte d'Azur : maenads, Dionysian actors, and Plato's Sôphrôsyne.
Summary:
"This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.
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