Hitchcock in America

• 영문명: Hitchcock in America
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Sooyoung Chon
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제37집 1호, 179~197쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.05.30

영문 초록

  Visuality in Hitchcock is a much explored topic. However, not many critics point out that possibilities and problematics of visuality become much more predominant in his American films whereas in his British films auditory experience predominates. Visuality is a perception acquired after birth and signifies separation, objectification, distancing and possibly alienation while aurality is a perception already function in the prenatal state when the fetus is securely placed within its matrix. Visuality may be Hitchcock"s idiosyncratic way of expressing his anxiety in the new and strange environment of America. Visuality is used his American films as metaphors for deliberately staged deception, deceptive superficiality in life of casual and passing contacts, anxiety of anonymity in an inhumanly giant scale city environment, and danger of wide exposure to unknown people through the mass media, In this context, visuality in Hitchcock can be approoched from much more diversified social angles than Lauro Mulvey"s feminist- psychoanalytical view of it expressed in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." In the end Hitchcockian heroes succeeds in straightening out the misunderstanding caused by visual deception. or misperception inherent in an alienating environment. The art of seeing assisted with camera or other optical equipments or intense and persistent watching are instrumental in straightening out the distorted vision. Cinema for Hitchcock is a visual counter attack on the visual distortions in modern life.

키워드

Hitchcock film America visuality Vertigo