Strangers on a train

by Goldberg, Jonathan

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Title Statements

Full title :Strangers on a train / Jonathan Goldberg.

Summary

"Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one is a man of high social standing who wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing father. Together they enter into a murder plot that binds them to one another, with fatal consequences.

This Queer Film classic delves into the homoerotic energy of the film, especially between the two male characters (played by Farley Granger and Robert Walker). It builds on the question of the sexuality the film puts on view, not to ask whether either character is gay so much as to explore the queer relations between sexuality and murder and the strong antisocial impulses those relations represent. The book also includes a look at the making of the film and the critical controversies over Hitchcock's representations of male homosexuality."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Arsenal Pulp
Place of Publication:Vancouver, BC
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

The Physical Object

Description:157 pages : : illustrations ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781551524825, 1551524821
oclc:ocn783153836
LC Classification:PN1995.9.H55
Dewey Decimal:791.4372

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Hitchcock, Alfred Homosexualité -- Au cinéma Homosexuality in motion pictures Strangers in motion pictures Strangers on a train (Film cinématograp… Strangers on a train (Motion picture)