Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2000) - The consumer perversity of Roger Thornhill
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- article: The consumer perversity of Roger Thornhill
- author(s): Murray Pomerance
- journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (31/Mar/2000)
- issue: volume 17, issue 1, page 19
- journal ISSN: 1050-9208
- keywords: "Hitchcock on Hitchcock" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb, "Hitchcock's Films Revisited" - by Robin Wood, "Hitchcock's Films" - by Robin Wood, "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Donald Spoto, 20th Century Limited, Adam Williams, Alfred Hitchcock, Alida Valli, Anthony Dawson, Bernard Herrmann, Cahiers du Cinéma, Cary Grant, Chicago, Illinois, Consumerism, Covent Garden Market, London, Dial M for Murder (1954), Donald Spoto, Eva Marie Saint, Family Plot (1976), Farley Granger, Florence Bates, Foreign Correspondent (1940), Fredric Jameson, Frenzy (1972), Grace Kelly, Grand Central Station, New York City, New York, Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California, I Confess (1953), James Mason, James Naremore, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Janet Leigh, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Jessie Royce Landis, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Joseph Cotten, Judith Anderson, Laurence Olivier, Lifeboat (1944), Louis Jourdan, Madison Avenue, New York City, New York, Marlene Dietrich, Marnie (1964), Martin Landau, Michael Wilding, Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois, Montgomery Clift, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), Murray Pomerance, New York City, New York, Norman Lloyd, North by Northwest (1959), Notorious (1946), Plaza Hotel, New York City, New York, Psycho (1960), Ray Milland, Raymond Burr, Rear Window (1954), Rebecca (1940), Robert Cummings, Robert Ellenstein, Robert F. Boyle, Robin Wood, Roger O. Thornhill, Rope (1948), Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Sidney Gottlieb, Slavoj Žižek, Spellbound (1945), Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951), Suspicion (1941), Teresa Wright, The Birds (1963), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Paradine Case (1947), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Wrong Man (1956), To Catch a Thief (1955), Topaz (1969), Torn Curtain (1966), Under Capricorn (1949), United Nations, New York City, New York, Vertigo (1958)
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Abstract
Pomerance examines Roger Thornhill's preoccupation with money in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." In Roger's warp, one discovers the pleasing unity of his character, the relation between his identity and his action.
