The Midwest Quarterly (1991) - Survival versus Salvation: The Conflicting Visions of Welles and Hitchcock
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- article: Survival versus Salvation: The Conflicting Visions of Welles and Hitchcock
- author(s): John W. Roberts
- journal: The Midwest Quarterly (1991)
- issue: volume 32, issue 2, page 197
- journal ISSN: 0026-3451
- publisher: Pittsburg State University, Department of History
- Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography (1995) — page 577, #1031
- keywords: Albert J. LaValley, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Chicago, Illinois, Eve Kendall, Focus on Hitchcock (1972) edited by Albert J. LaValley, Foreign Correspondent (1940), George Kaplan, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Douchet, London, England, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, New York City, New York, Norma Bates, Norman Bates, North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Raymond Durgnat, Rear Window (1954), Robin Wood, Roger O. Thornhill, Strangers on a Train (1951), The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (1983) by Donald Spoto, The Lady Vanishes (1938), The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974) by Raymond Durgnat
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Abstract
Few directors expressed Film Noir with the virtuosity of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock. Despite many thematic similarities, a broad philosophical disagreement emerged between the two directors and their films. The respective moral relativism and moral absolutism contained in their films are discussed.