Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock by William Rothman

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Film and Culture

William Rothman

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history literary philosophy
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William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock's work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, "Each man kills the thing he loves," with the quintessentially American philosophy, articulated in E...

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