Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (1999) edited by Richard Allen & S. Ishii Gonzales
(Redirected from Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (1999, Nonfiction))
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| Richard Allen & Sam Ishii-Gonzales | |
| BFI Publishing (1999) | |
| ISBN 085170736X (paperback) | |
| ISBN 0851707351 (hardback) | |
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Synopsis
This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Alfred Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his singular body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations, his relationship with modernism and politics, and his preoccupation with romance and sexuality.
Contents
Part 1
- Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master - theory vs practice — Deborah Knight and George McKnight
- Hitchcock, fin de partie — Raymond Bellour
- Hitchcock as Saboteur — Susan Smith
- The theatre in English Hitchcock
Part 2
- Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir — James Naremore
- The efforts of Eros - Hitchcock with the surrealists — S. Ishii Gonzales
- The cult of representation - painting and sculpture in Hitchcock — Brigitte Peuker
- Hitchcock's "rope" — Peter Wollen
Part 3
- Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle - Hitchcock on television — Tom Leitch
- We might even get in the news reels - the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films — Ina Rae Hark
- You wanna check my thumb prints? "Vertigo", the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism — Robert Corber
- On espionage and "The 39 Steps" — Toby Miller
Part 4
- Sexuality/romance: "Marnie" and the foreclosure of lesbian identity — Jacqueline Joyce
- Hitchcock's future — Lee Edelman
- "Are snakes necessary?" Comedy in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges — Lesley Brill
- "Vertigo" and feminist theory — Susan White
Part 5
- Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy — Thomas Elsasser
- Returning to the scene of the crime - "Psycho" and the remake — William Rothman
- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character — Paula Marantz Cohen
- Hitchcock, Metasceptic — Richard Allen
