{"product_id":"a-dream-of-hitchcock-explores-hitchcocks-repeated-voyages-into-the-dreamlike-9781438472089","title":"A Dream of Hitchcock Explores Hitchcocks repeated","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the director''s repeated voyages into the dreamlike.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dream of Hitchcock\u003c\/i\u003e examines the recurring motif of the dream in Hitchcock''s work-dreamscapes, dream processes, the dream effect-by focusing on close readings of six celebrated but often misinterpreted films: \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaboteur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Catch a Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFamily Plot\u003c\/i\u003e. The Hitchcockian dream, as invoked here, is not so much a dream as it is a way of understanding, in its dramatic contexts, an unearthly, irrational quality in the filmmaker''s work. \u003ci\u003eRebecca\u003c\/i\u003e revolves around problems of memory; \u003ci\u003eTo Catch a Thief\u003c\/i\u003e around uncertainty; \u003ci\u003eSaboteur\u003c\/i\u003e around pungent aspiration; \u003ci\u003eFamily Plot\u003c\/i\u003e around intuition; \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e around expansive imagination; and \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e around delirious madness. All of these films enunciate the return of the past, the invocation of a boundary beyond which experience becomes unpredictable and uncertain, and the celebration of values that transcend narrative resolution. Murray Pomerance''s distinctive method for thinking through Hitchcock''s work allows these films to inform theorization, not the other way around. His original, provocative, and groundbreaking explorations point to the importance of fantasy, improbability, doubt disconcertion, hope, memory, intuition, and belief, through which the oneiric comes to the center of waking life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039736430935,"sku":"9781438472089","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781438472089.jpg?v=1750944651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-dream-of-hitchcock-explores-hitchcocks-repeated-voyages-into-the-dreamlike-9781438472089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}