Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology

Toby Miller; Noel King

doi:10.1002/9781444397321.ch23

Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology

Toby Miller^*, Noel King

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
Editors	Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley
Pages	425-451
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Print)	9781405185387
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444397321.ch23
Publication status	Published - 3 Sept 2012

Keywords

Ernest Mandel's compelling socio-historical account of fiction-period between two World Wars
Espionage fiction, taking off in decade-following L'affaire Dreyfus, in late-nineteenth century France
Hitchcock's British espionage-movies, managed to be both of their time and beyond it
Hitchcock's distaste for urban life-visually thematized in panic of music-hall crowd
Hitchcock's gift in The 39 Steps-creating a bricolage, denigrating masses
Hitchcock's MacGuffins, narrative alibis-quests, getting of knowledge matters more than knowledge itself
Hitchcock's political thinking from his texts-shifting relations among novels
Hitchcock, not prone to constative remarks-about class struggle, the state or imperialism
Ideology, accidental heroes and gifted amateurs-Hitchcock and ideology
Iris's extraordinary self-confidence-casual imperialism, "the Union Jack fluttering overhead"

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