التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Suspense and Christian Culture: Visual Analogies in Alfred Hitchcock's Movies. |
| المؤلفون: |
Puigarnau, Alfons |
| المصدر: |
Religions; Apr2024, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p468, 28p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
VISUAL culture, ARCHITECTURAL aesthetics, CRIME films, AESTHETICS of art, MEDIEVAL architecture, MEDIEVAL art, SUSPENSE fiction |
| People: |
HITCHCOCK, Alfred, 1899-1980, JESUS Christ |
| مستخلص: |
In this text, the author analyzes the convergence between Christian culture and relevant films of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense filmography. Rather than focusing on Hitchcock's status as a Catholic director, he makes an empirical analysis that allows him to find certain visual analogies between the Christian imaginary and the frames of certain films of the master of suspense. This article understands cinema as a kind of mental, psychological, or spiritual cartography/geography, and this is how it connects to the theme of space, where cinema is not just as analogous to physical space but the experience of viewing as a space. The Christian iconography of death, understood as participation in an eternal time, helps to understand the projection of the concept of suspension of judgment in constructing suspense that is not only iconographic but also spatially ontological. The author also suggests an epistemological connection between the mysterious nature of space in medieval art and architecture and the aesthetics of perfect crime in films. The allegory of Christ's Passion will be seen as a recurring thread in Hitchcock's visual analogies. His cinema and his particular way of seeing reality through space continue to demonstrate the validity of his art in writing new episodes in Western culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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