A Hitchcock Reader (1989) edited by Marshall Deutelbaum & Leland Poague

editors	Marshall Deutelbaum & Leland A. Poague
publisher	Blackwell Publishing Professional (1989)
	ISBN 0813808928 (paperback)
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Synopsis

"A Hitchcock Reader" grew out of the editors' desire for a comprehensive and critical text in courses devoted to the director's films. This updated edition should also satisfy general readers and scholars by providing a range of thought-provoking essays that reflect the history of film criticism and theory over the past thirty years.

Contents

Part One: Taking Hitchcock Seriously

• Hitch and His Public — Jean Douchet
• Hitchcock's Imagery and Art — Maurice Yacowar
• Retrospective — Robin Wood
• Hitch at Metro — Leonard J. Leff

Part Two: Hitchcock in Britain

• Hitchcock's The Lodger — Lesley W. Brill
• Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail — Leland Poague
• Alfred Hitchcock's Murder!: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera — William Rothman
• Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much — Elisabeth Weis
• Through a Woman's Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps — Charles L.P. Silet
• Rematerializing the Vanishing "Lady": Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation — Patrice Petro

Part Three: Hitchcock in Hollywood

• All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt — James McLaughlin
• The Moral Universe of Hitchcock's Spellbound — Thomas Hyde
• Notorious: Perversion par Excellence — Richard Abel
• Strangers on a Train — Robin Wood

Part Four: The Later Films

• Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism — Robert Stam & Roberta Pearson
• Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man — Marshall Deutelbaum
• Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock — Robin Wood
• A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock, and Vertigo — Marian E. Keane
• North by Northwest — Stanley Cavell
• The Birds: A Mother's Love — Margaret M. Horwitz
• Mark's Marnie — Michele Piso

Part Five: Hitchcock and Film Theory — A Psycho Dossier

• Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion — Raymond Bellour
• Psycho: The Institutionalization of Female Sexuality — Barbara Klinger
• Links in a Chain: Psycho and Film Classicism — Leland Poague

Reviews

• North Dakota Quarterly (1987) - Marshall Deutelbaum and Leland Poague (eds.): A Hitchcock Reader

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