Rebecca

Rebecca
Patricia White
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Paperback
h190 x 135mm - 120pg
6 May 2021 UK
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9781911239437
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The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier' s gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel' s famous opening line, ' Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. ' Patricia White takes the theme of return as her starting point for an exploration of the film' s enduring power. Drawing on archival research, she shows how the production and reception history of Rebecca, the first fruit of the collaboration between Hollywood movie producer David O. Selznick and British director Alfred Hitchcock, is marked by the traces of women' s contributions. White provides a rich analysis of the film, addressing the gap between perception and reality that is constantly in play in the gothic romance, and highlighting the queer erotics circulating around ' I' (the heroine), Mrs Danvers, and the dead but ever-present Rebecca. Her discussion of the film' s afterlives emphasizes the lasting aesthetic impact of this dark masterpiece of memory and desire, while her attention to its remakes and sequels speaks to the ongoing relevance of its vision of gender and power.
In Rebecca, Patricia White lends her voice to the women-among them, Daphne du Maurier, Irene Selznick, Joan Harrison, and Alma Reville, as well the film' s critics-who have contributed extensively to the making and understanding of Hitchcock' s classic film. In a sense White brilliantly stages yet one more return of the dead woman, Rebecca, who haunts the unnamed heroine and so many fans of the novel and the film, and in lucid and compelling prose testifies to the undying appeal of the ghostly character and her magnificent maleficence. -- Tania Modleski, University of Southern California, USA
Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, USA. She is author of Women' s Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (2015) and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1999), and is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective.
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ISBN-13: 9781911239437
Published: 6 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 120

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