Neil Badmington 
Perpetual Movement 
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope

The first book-length study in English of Alfred Hitchcock’s
Rope (1948),
Perpetual Movement offers both a production history that draws extensively upon little-known archival materials, including set drawings and drafts of the screenplay, and a close examination of the film in which Neil Badmington analyzes each of
Rope’s eleven shots. Writing in an accessible and engaging style, Badmington explores the film’s treatment of space, sound, editing, sexuality, source material, design, intertexuality, narrative, and music. He looks at Hitchcock’s struggle with censorship while planning, shooting, and distributing the film.
Perpetual Movement also addresses
Rope’s reception and legacy, explaining why the film’s unusual qualities provide such lasting appeal for viewers.

Tabella dei contenuti

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Archival Sources



Introduction: Entangled



1. Operation
Rope



2. Inside



3. Entrances, Elsewheres



4. In the Bedroom



5. Just Plain Something



6. Miss Sashweight of the Blunt Instrument Department



7. From OR to ‘We’



8. Two Small Fugitives from a Bowl of Alphabet Soup



9. Faking Freud



10. Cat and Mouse



11. Arrest Indicated



Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Neil Badmington is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of
Hitchcock’s Magic,
The Afterlives of Roland Barthes, and
Alien Chic.