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]