Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual (2002) edited by Sidney Gottlieb & Christopher Brookhouse
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| Sidney Gottlieb & Christopher Brookhouse | |
| Wayne State University Press (2002) | |
| ISBN 0814330614 | |
| LibraryThing | |
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Synopsis
In its history the "Hitchcock Annual" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and arguably one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This selection of writings offers an overview of thinking on the filmmaker and his work. The articles span his career and cover a wide range of topics from archaeological investigation to incisive analyses on the films themselves. The collection begins with rare insights into Hitchcock's early years, including his work in Germany and his silent film "Easy Virtue", which, with its metaphoric play on the concept of "being framed", dramatizes aspects of the human condition to which Hitchcock returned repeatedly. Commentators explore a variety of themes, including the centrality of kissing shots and sequences in nearly all the films, and images of women's handbags as elements of sspense and sexual tension in such films as "Dial M for Murder" and "Psycho". Other essays examine the influence of "Vertigo" , "The Birds" and "Frenzy" on François Truffaut the remaking of "Psycho" and feminist interpretations of "Shadow of a Doubt".
- Early Hitchcock: the German Influence — Sidney Gottlieb
- German Hitchcock — Joseph Garncarz
- Easy Virtue's Frames — Christopher Morris
- The Diabolic Imagination: Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of Cinema — David Sterritt
- Hitchcock's Emersonian Edges — Frank M. Meola
- Hitchcock and the Art of the Kiss: A Preliminary Survey — Sidney Gottlieb
- Hitchcockian Haberdashery — Sarah Street
- Hitchcock's Hands — Sabrina Barton
- The Hitchcock Moment — Thomas M. Leitch
- Writings for Hitch: An Interview with Evan Hunter — Charles L.P. Silet
- An Interview with Jay Presson Allen — Richard Allen
- Hitchcock the Feminist: Rereading Shadow of a Doubt — Thomas Hemmeter
- Rear Window, or the Reciprocated Glance — John A. Bertolini
- Engendering Vertigo — Leland Poague
- Avian Metaphor in The Birds — Richard Allen
- Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births and Deaths — David Sterritt
- "A Hero for Our Times": Foreign Correspondent, Hero, and The Bonfire of the Vanities — Leslie Brill
- Echoes of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Birds, and Frenzy in Francois Truffaut's Story of Adele H. — James M. Vest
- The Myth of Apocalypse and the Horror Film: The Primacy of Psycho and The Birds — Christopher Sharrett
- "See it from the Beginning": Hitchcock's Reconstruction of Film History — Joan Hawkins
- Remaking Psycho — James Naremore
