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Hitchcock à la Carte /

"Alfred Hitchcock: cultural icon, master film director, storyteller, television host, foodie. And as Jan Olsson argues in Hitchcock à la Carte, he was also an expert marketer who built his personal brand around his rotund figure and well-documented table indulgencies. Focusing on Hitchcock...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olsson, Jan, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. A body for all seasons
  • Feeding the legend
  • Interlude I. Tasty bodies
  • Smaller screen, bigger brand : hosting "Hitchcock"
  • Interlude II. Double hosting
  • Hitchcockian reflections : traces, proxies, doubles, and corpses
  • Conclusion. Violent endings with a twist.