HITCHCOCK- Jacobean Artist
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📚 The book - JACOBEAN VISIONS: Webster, #Hitchcock, and Google Culture 👀
#narrative vertigos, #surveillance, identity confusions, artifice, shadows of doubts, spies...dead AND alive.
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#narrative vertigos, #surveillance, identity confusions, artifice, shadows of doubts, spies...dead AND alive.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bounty hunters just need to grab them in for the quota numbers.
What law there is might come later.
What law there is might come later.
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Bounty hunters just need to grab them in for the quota numbers.
What law there is might come later.
What law there is might come later.
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The quartet...
The quartet...
September 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The quartet...
The quartet...
🎬 Where a Hollywood person works as a film actor who
- plays a theatre actor in a film
- who must fake a role
- against a star actor
- to get to the truth.
Jacobean wit and design by #Hitchcock
- plays a theatre actor in a film
- who must fake a role
- against a star actor
- to get to the truth.
Jacobean wit and design by #Hitchcock
August 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🎬 Where a Hollywood person works as a film actor who
- plays a theatre actor in a film
- who must fake a role
- against a star actor
- to get to the truth.
Jacobean wit and design by #Hitchcock
- plays a theatre actor in a film
- who must fake a role
- against a star actor
- to get to the truth.
Jacobean wit and design by #Hitchcock
🎬 He always had a thing for Surrealism. 📎
- Alfred #Hitchcock photographed by Francois Gragnon in Cannes in 1963
- Alfred #Hitchcock photographed by Francois Gragnon in Cannes in 1963
July 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🎬 He always had a thing for Surrealism. 📎
- Alfred #Hitchcock photographed by Francois Gragnon in Cannes in 1963
- Alfred #Hitchcock photographed by Francois Gragnon in Cannes in 1963
ROPE foreshadows their next three films that gradually dismantle the process of knowing.
VERTIGO is an epistemological trap. #Hitchcock
VERTIGO is an epistemological trap. #Hitchcock
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ROPE foreshadows their next three films that gradually dismantle the process of knowing.
VERTIGO is an epistemological trap. #Hitchcock
VERTIGO is an epistemological trap. #Hitchcock
Really? So that's what he pays you?
- How much does the other gal get?
Jimmy. You really need to read the whole script.
- How much does the other gal get?
Jimmy. You really need to read the whole script.
March 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Really? So that's what he pays you?
- How much does the other gal get?
Jimmy. You really need to read the whole script.
- How much does the other gal get?
Jimmy. You really need to read the whole script.
It's a very dark and nasty Jacobean intrigue out there.
February 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's a very dark and nasty Jacobean intrigue out there.
It looks like this.
January 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It looks like this.
One core element shared between Jacobean drama and Hitchcock is how diabolic often crazed surface story content combines with rigid appealing aesthetic structure. Like the characters we are caught fascinated in the workmanlike net.
January 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One core element shared between Jacobean drama and Hitchcock is how diabolic often crazed surface story content combines with rigid appealing aesthetic structure. Like the characters we are caught fascinated in the workmanlike net.
More fun is had spotting his cameos. Of further interest is his shape shifting across his TV series.
His sly drop of the Devil - the auteur shape-shifter into US suburban households.
His sly drop of the Devil - the auteur shape-shifter into US suburban households.
January 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
More fun is had spotting his cameos. Of further interest is his shape shifting across his TV series.
His sly drop of the Devil - the auteur shape-shifter into US suburban households.
His sly drop of the Devil - the auteur shape-shifter into US suburban households.
The #Hitchcock/ Stewart Quartet is about many things. Even about his changing relationship to rooftops.
January 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The #Hitchcock/ Stewart Quartet is about many things. Even about his changing relationship to rooftops.
A very Jacobean start.
January 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A very Jacobean start.
🎬'In a digital era made increasingly dependent on insistent ocular proof, making the act of simply viewing profoundly problematic over the course of 52 films is perhaps Hitchcock's most singular achievement.' p. 102 👀
December 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
🎬'In a digital era made increasingly dependent on insistent ocular proof, making the act of simply viewing profoundly problematic over the course of 52 films is perhaps Hitchcock's most singular achievement.' p. 102 👀
Belsey (p. 29.) reflects on the '...superimposition of one (mode) on the other...capable of generating a radical uncertainty...by withholding from the spectator the single position from which a single and unified meaning is produced ...'
THE SUBJECT OF TRAGEDY 1985
THE SUBJECT OF TRAGEDY 1985
December 8, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Belsey (p. 29.) reflects on the '...superimposition of one (mode) on the other...capable of generating a radical uncertainty...by withholding from the spectator the single position from which a single and unified meaning is produced ...'
THE SUBJECT OF TRAGEDY 1985
THE SUBJECT OF TRAGEDY 1985
🎬 for both audience and character the final act 'becomes an elongated twenty-minute expansion of tortured Jacobean dualism' VERTIGO (1958).
p. 117
p. 117
December 8, 2024 at 9:00 AM
🎬 for both audience and character the final act 'becomes an elongated twenty-minute expansion of tortured Jacobean dualism' VERTIGO (1958).
p. 117
p. 117
So VERTIGO'S '...own design compels the watching viewer, both female and, more importantly, male into a Jacobean form of dual vision or simultaneity of response of the kind we should be familiar with from THE WHITE DEVIL (1612). p 116
December 8, 2024 at 8:54 AM
So VERTIGO'S '...own design compels the watching viewer, both female and, more importantly, male into a Jacobean form of dual vision or simultaneity of response of the kind we should be familiar with from THE WHITE DEVIL (1612). p 116
Review 👁️ www.screeningthepast.com/issue-23-rev...
December 6, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Review 👁️ www.screeningthepast.com/issue-23-rev...
👁️ Speaking of dual tones...
'Flamineo's beguiling flair with language, his open play with paradox, and his grotesque and subtle daring...is both enchanting but dangerous...' p. 58
'Flamineo's beguiling flair with language, his open play with paradox, and his grotesque and subtle daring...is both enchanting but dangerous...' p. 58
December 6, 2024 at 7:12 AM
👁️ Speaking of dual tones...
'Flamineo's beguiling flair with language, his open play with paradox, and his grotesque and subtle daring...is both enchanting but dangerous...' p. 58
'Flamineo's beguiling flair with language, his open play with paradox, and his grotesque and subtle daring...is both enchanting but dangerous...' p. 58
👁️ 'The bittersweet combination of unseen gore ...with the sound of happy children engenders a dual mixture of comic and serious modes typical of...the Jacobean sensibility.' p. 82/3.
REAR WINDOW.
REAR WINDOW.
December 6, 2024 at 6:58 AM
👁️ 'The bittersweet combination of unseen gore ...with the sound of happy children engenders a dual mixture of comic and serious modes typical of...the Jacobean sensibility.' p. 82/3.
REAR WINDOW.
REAR WINDOW.
👁️ Law? What Law!
Am mindful of how the revenge drama is now so prevalent. And coming to a White House near you...
Am mindful of how the revenge drama is now so prevalent. And coming to a White House near you...
December 6, 2024 at 6:43 AM
👁️ Law? What Law!
Am mindful of how the revenge drama is now so prevalent. And coming to a White House near you...
Am mindful of how the revenge drama is now so prevalent. And coming to a White House near you...
Brachiano willingly interprets her dreams
...or her interpretation/report of a supposed dream...' p. 62
...or her interpretation/report of a supposed dream...' p. 62
November 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Brachiano willingly interprets her dreams
...or her interpretation/report of a supposed dream...' p. 62
...or her interpretation/report of a supposed dream...' p. 62
Oxford Museum of Modern Art. 1999. #Hitchcock
November 29, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Oxford Museum of Modern Art. 1999. #Hitchcock