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