Falling into the River with Albert, Madeleine and James

Falling into the River with Albert, Madeleine and James

All the same, The Fall is literature and D'Entre Les Morts is pulp -- or was doomed to remain so until Alfred Hitchcock's writers transferred the plot to Fort Point and dislocated its morbid eroticism from the moral turbulence of the Seine to the San Francisco bay. In one book, a woman nev...

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Published in:Performance research Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 151 - 159
Main Author: Mount, Kevin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Routledge 01-08-2013
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Novels
Rivers
Writers
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Summary:All the same, The Fall is literature and D'Entre Les Morts is pulp -- or was doomed to remain so until Alfred Hitchcock's writers transferred the plot to Fort Point and dislocated its morbid eroticism from the moral turbulence of the Seine to the San Francisco bay. In one book, a woman never seen, her leopard neck only sensed in the dark by a passer-by, plunges into the river water and drowns; in the other, she is pursued down river and pretends to try to drown herself, but only in order to be embraced and rescued.
ISSN:1352-8165
1469-9990
DOI:10.1080/13528165.2013.814349