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Clues (2013) - "Inspiring Public Uneasiness": Hitchcock's Adaptation of Conrad's "Simple Tale"

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  • article: "Inspiring Public Uneasiness": Hitchcock's Adaptation of Conrad's "Simple Tale"
  • author(s): Matthew Paul Carlson
  • journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
  • issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 24
  • journal ISSN: 0742-4248
  • publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
  • keywords: Anxieties, Film adaptations, Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Novels

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Abstract

In Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936); adapted from Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, 1907), the director goes beyond mere use of the novel as a point of departure; he deeply engages its underlying anxieties about the artist's relationship to his audience. The author explores how both Conrad and Hitchcock self-reflexively embed these anxieties within their narratives by developing a series of metaphors for the morally questionable engagement with lowbrow popular culture. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]