Hitchcock's appetites : the corpulent plots of desire and dread / Casey McKittrick.

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[London] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.

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Casey McKittrick offers a study of the relationship between Hitchcock's body size and his cinema. Whereas most critics and biographers of the great director are content to consign his large figure and larger appetite to colourful anecdotes of his private life, McKittrick argues that our understanding of Hitchcock's films, his creative process and his artistic mind are incomplete without considering his lived experience as a fat man. Using archival research of his publicity, script collaboration and personal communications with his producers, in tandem with close textual readings of his films, feminist critique and theories of embodiment, this book produces a profile of Hitchcock's creative life, and a fuller, more nuanced account of his auteurism.

Screen studies. Bloomsbury and Faber screenplays and criticism.

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February 19, 2019

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

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