Children in the films of Alfred Hitchcock /
Weaving together film theory, cultural studies and the growing field of children's studies, this collection examines Hitchcock's use of children in his films. Many of the children and youth that appear in Hitchcock films are background or minor characters, yet they often hold special impor...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Hitchcock's Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address; Noel Brown
- 2. "The Future's Not Ours to See": How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock's American Movies; Jason T. McEntee
- 3. The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956); D. Elizabeth Ramsey
- 4. No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936); Peter W. Lee
- 5. "If You Ripped the Fronts Off Houses": Killing Innocence in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland
- 6. Daddy's Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train (1951); Brian Walter
- 7. Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955); Adrian Schober
- 8. Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and The Birds (1963); Fran Pheasant-Kelly
- 9. The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963); Samantha Lay
- 10. "It's the End of the World!": The influence of The Birds on the Evil Child Film; Craig Martin
- 11. Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema; Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
- 12. Hitchcock's Stylized Capture of Postadolescent Fatheads; William Thomas McBride.