Description
Book SynopsisThis new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be used as a critical text in introductory or advanced film courses, while also satisfying Hitchcock scholars by representing the rich variety of critical responses to the director''s films over the years.
- a total of 20 of Hitchcock''s films are discussed in depth - many others are considered in passing
- section introductions by the editors that contextualize the essays and the films they discuss
- well-researched bibliographic references, which will allow readers to broaden the scope of their study of Alfred Hitchcock
Trade Review"The rewritten introductions to each section update scholarship on Hitchcock, engaging the reader in current debates among Hitchcock scholars and fans." (
CHOICE, 2009)
"The detail is extraordinary and the insights remarkable and the director? He would have been flattered, but still retorted "Oh it's only a movie!"" (
M/C Reviews, May 2009)
Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition viii
Preface to the First Edition xi
A Brief Chronology xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xx
Introduction xxiii
Part one: Taking Hitchcock Seriously 1
1. Hitch and His Public 17
Jean Douchet
2. Hitchcock’s Imagery and Art 25
Maurice Yacowar
3. Retrospective 35
Robin Wood
4. Hitch as Matrix-Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema 47
John Orr
Part two: Hitchcock in Britain 69
5. Hitchcock’s The Lodger 75
Lesley W. Brill
6. Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail 85
Leland Poague
7. Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder!: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera 96
William Rothman
8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much 107
Elisabeth Weis
9. Through a Woman’s Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps 114
Charles l. P. Silet
10. Rematerializing the Vanishing “Lady”: Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation 126
Patrice Petro
Part three: Hitchcock in Hollywood 137
11. All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt 145
James McLaughlin
12. The Moral Universe of Hitchcock’s Spellbound 156
Thomas Hyde
13. Notorious: Perversion par Excellence 164
Richard Abel
14. Strangers on a Train 172
Robin Wood
Part four: The Later Films 183
15. Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism 199
Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson
16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man 212
Marshall Deutelbaum
17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock 223
Robin Wood
18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock, and Vertigo 234
Marian E. Keane
19. North by Northwest 250
Stanley Cavell
20. “Oh, I See.…”: The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock’s Hyper-Romantic Vision 264
John P. Mccombe
21. Mark’s Marnie 280
Michele Piso
22. The Queer Voice in Marnie 295
Lucretia Knapp
23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy 312
Tania Modleski
Part five: Hitchcock and Film Theory: A Psycho Dossier 327
24. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion 341
Raymond Bellour
25. Psycho’s Allegory of Seeing 361
Christopher D. Morris
26. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock’s Psycho 368
Deborah Thomas
Index 377
