TY - BOOK AU - Padilla,Mark William TI - Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock SN - 9781498529167 AV - PN1998.3.H58.P335 2016eb U1 - 791.430233092 PY - 2016/// CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic KW - Mythology, Classical, in motion pictures KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- The Feature Films of Alfred Hitchcock -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Hestia's Hearths and the Judgment of Paris in The Farmer's Wife -- Chapter Two. Eleusinian Mysteries and Heroic Catabasis in the 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much -- Chapter Three. The Heroine Pattern of Cupid and Psyche in Rebecca -- Chapter Four. Crisscrossing Strangers on a Train with the Homeric Hymn to Hermes -- Appendix. Story Summaries -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author N2 - This book explores the themes and symbols of classical myth and literature reflected in Alfred Hitchcock's films. Mark W. Padilla examines the classical resonances of four movies, one from each of the filmmaker's first decades UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4670375 ER -