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Highlights the director's theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials.

Table of Contents
Origin of the Code Censors at Work The British Board of Film Censors The British Gaumont Thrillers Hitchcock and Selznick Rebecca (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) Suspicion (1941) Saboteur (1942) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) The Paradine Case (1947) Hitchcock and Transatlantic Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) Hitchcock and Warner Bros. Stage Fright (1950) Strangers on a Train (1951) I Confess (1953) Dial M for Murder (1954) Hitchcock in Ascendance Rear Window (1954) To Catch a Thief (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Television Censorship Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Decline of the Code The Rise of the Rating System Topaz (1969) Frenzy (1972) Family Plot (1976) Conclusion

Hitchcock and the Censors

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      Publisher The University Press of Kentucky
      Published 5 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780813180540
      978-0813180540
      ISBN-10 0813180546
      Also in:
      Film history, theory or criticism Filmmaking and production Films, cinema

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Highlights the director's theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials.

      Table of Contents
      Origin of the Code Censors at Work The British Board of Film Censors The British Gaumont Thrillers Hitchcock and Selznick Rebecca (1940) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) Suspicion (1941) Saboteur (1942) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Lifeboat (1944) Spellbound (1945) Notorious (1946) The Paradine Case (1947) Hitchcock and Transatlantic Rope (1948) Under Capricorn (1949) Hitchcock and Warner Bros. Stage Fright (1950) Strangers on a Train (1951) I Confess (1953) Dial M for Murder (1954) Hitchcock in Ascendance Rear Window (1954) To Catch a Thief (1955) The Trouble with Harry (1955) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Torn Curtain (1966) Television Censorship Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Decline of the Code The Rise of the Rating System Topaz (1969) Frenzy (1972) Family Plot (1976) Conclusion

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