Quarterly Review of Film and Video (1995) - Jimmy Stewart is being beaten: Rope and the postwar crisis in American masculinity

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• article: Jimmy Stewart is being beaten: Rope and the postwar crisis in American masculinity
• author(s): Amy Lawrence
• journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (31/Jul/1995)
• issue: volume 16, issue 1, page 41
• journal ISSN: 1050-9208
• keywords: Actors, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures

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Abstract

Lawrence examines how James Stewart's first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in the film "Rope" highlights one of the recurrent themes of Stewart's star-image: the exploration of an American masculine subjectivity threatened at all times by a frequently undefined but unescapable shame.