Hitchcock Reader

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.

Preface. Introduction. Part One: Taking Hitchcock Seriously [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 1. Hitch and His Public: Jean Douchet. 2. Hitchcock's Imagery and Art: Maurice Yacowar. 3. Retrospective: Robin Wood. 4. Hitch as Matrix Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth Century Cinema: John Orr. Part Two: Hitchcock in Britain [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 5. Hitchcock's The Lodger: Lesley Brill. 6. Criticism and/as History: Leland Poague. 7. Alfred Hitchcock's Murder : Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera: William Rothman. 8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Elizabeth Weis. 9. Through a Woman's Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps: Charles L. P. Silet. 10. Rematerializing the Vanishing "Lady": Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation: Patrice Petro. Part Three: Hitchcock in Hollywood [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 11. All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt: James McLaughlin. 12. The Moral Universe of Hitchcock's Spellbound: Thomas Hyde. 13. Notorious : Perversion par Excellence: Richard Abel. 14. Strangers on a Train: Robin Wood. Part Four: The Later Films [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 15. Hitchcock's Rear Window : Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism: Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson. 16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man: Marshall Deutelbaum. 17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock: Robin Wood. 18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock and Vertigo: Marian Keane. 19. North by Northwest: Stanley Cavell. 20. "Oh, I See ...": The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock's Romantic Vision: John P. McCombes. 21. Mark's Marnie: Michael Piso. 22. Queer Marnie: Lucretia Knapp. 23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy: Tania Modleski. Part Five: Hitchcock and Film Theory : A Psycho Dossier. 24. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion: Raymond Bellour. 25. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock's Psycho: Deborah Thomas. 26. Psycho's Allegory of Seeing: Christopher Morris