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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral

By: Robert J. Belton

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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral

By: Robert J. Belton

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Borrowing from behavioral psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, author Robert J. Belton seeks to explain differences of critical opinion as inevitable. The book begins by introducing the hermeneutic spiral, a cognitive processing model that categorizes responses to Vertigo’s meaning, ranging from wide consensus to wild speculations of critical “outliers.” Belton then provides an overview of the film, arguing that different interpreters literally see and attend to different things. The fourth chapter builds on this conclusion, arguing that because people see different things, one can force the production of new meanings by deliberately drawing attention to unusual comparisons. The latter chapters outline a number of such comparisons—including avant-garde films and the works of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch—to shed new light on the meanings of Vertigo.

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156

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Springer

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ISBN 10

3319551884

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9783319551883

Sights of Resistance

Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

By: Robert James Belton

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Sights of Resistance

Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture

By: Robert James Belton

CD-ROM contains: Chapters from text -- Glossary.

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407

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University of Calgary Press

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ISBN 10

1552380114

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9781552380116

The Beribboned Bomb

The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art

By: Robert James Belton

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The Beribboned Bomb

The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art

By: Robert James Belton

Surrealism was ostensibly directed at the emancipation of the human spirit, but it represented only male aspirations and fantasies until a number of women artists began to redefine its agenda in the later 1930s. This book addresses the former, using a 'thick description' of the historically specific circumstances which required the male Surrealists to manufacture a sexual reputation of narcissism and misogyny. These circumstances were determined by 'hegemonic masculinity', an ideological construct which had little to do with individual masculinities. In male Surrealism, the 'beribboned bomb' signified something both attractive and volatile, a specific instance of the Surrealist principle of convulsive beauty. In hegemonic masculinity, similar devices served as metaphors of the sexuality all men were supposed to possess. The intersection of these two axes produced an imagery of unrepentant violence.

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University of Calgary Press

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1895176549

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9781895176544

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Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Hermeneutic Spiral

Sights of Resistance

Sights of Resistance

The Beribboned Bomb

The Beribboned Bomb

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