Clues (2013) - Reading Hitchcock/Reading Queer: Adaptation, Narrativity, and a Queer Mode of Address in Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho

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• article: Reading Hitchcock/Reading Queer: Adaptation, Narrativity, and a Queer Mode of Address in Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho
• author(s): Heath A. Diehl
• journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
• issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 33
• journal ISSN: 0742-4248
• publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
• keywords: American culture, Film adaptations, Gays & lesbians, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novels, Theater

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Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951) reveal an interest in the odd; the peculiar; the "queer." The author examines the narrative choices made in adaptation, arguing that in the differences between literary texts and cinematic adaptations, Hitchcock facilitates a queer mode of address that encourages audiences to read against the heteronormative imperative that typified mid-century American culture. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]