The Hitchcockian Nudge; or, An Aesthetics of Deception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3192064 |
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| Authors | Rey Chow, Markos Hadjioannou (0000-0001-5333-3456) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-174 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2017.140.1.159 |
| OpenAlex | W2769457168 |
| Language | EN |
This article considers Alfred Hitchcock's work in relation to the connotations of "fallacy" within conventional settings of modern Western society. Focusing on two films, Strangers on a Train (1951) and Rear Window (1954), we point to the phenomenon of the incidental push that leads toward an inextricable entanglement of characters, events, and psychic forces in what appear to be logical courses of action. We name this push "the Hitchcockian nudge
Aesthetics · Deception · Epistemology · Fallacy · Phenomenon · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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