Description
Book SynopsisThirteen original essays by leading film scholars reveal the richness and variety of Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy as they trace his shaping influence on particular films, filmmakers, genres, and even on film criticism.
Trade Review"All in all, After Hitchcock is a readable and informative anthology that dares to present a different take on Hitchcock." * Film International *
Table of Contents
- Introduction (David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer)
- I: Psycho Recycled
- 1. For Ever Hitchcock: Psycho and Its Remakes (Constantine Verevis)
- 2. Hitchcockian Silence: Psycho and Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (Lesley Brill)
- II: The Return of the Repressed
- 3. Shadows of Shadow of a Doubt (Adam Knee)
- 4. Psycho or Psychic? Hitchcock, Dead Again, and the Paranormal (Ina Rae Hark)
- III: The Politics of Intertextuality
- 5. The Hitchcock Romance and the '70s Paranoid Thriller (R. Barton Palmer)
- 6. Exposing the Lies of Hitchcock's Truth (Walter Metz)
- IV: Found in Translation
- 7. Red Blood on White Bread: Hitchcock, Chabrol, and French Cinema (Richard Neupert)
- 8. "You're Tellin' Me You Didn't See": Hitchcock's Rear Window and Antonioni's Blow-Up (Frank P. Tomasulo)
- 9. Melo-Thriller: Hitchcock, Genre, and Nationalism in Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz)
- 10. "Knowing Too Much" about Hitchcock: The Genesis of the Italian Giallo (Philippe Met)
- V: Theoretically Hitchcockian
- 11. Death at Work: Hitchcock's Violence and Spectator Identification (Robert Sklar)
- 12. Hitchcock and the Classical Paradigm (John Belton)
- VI: Modus Operandi
- 13. How to Steal from Hitchcock (Thomas M. Leitch)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
