The Cambridge companion to Alfred Hitchcock /
Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself, including Rebecca, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Jonathan Freedman
- Section I. Hitchcock encounters America, America encounters Hitchcock: roots and offshoots
- Cycling through: Hitchcock and the studio system / Thomas Schatz
- Making the brand / Janet Staiger
- Hitchcock on location: America, icons, and the place of illusion / Sara Blair
- Hitchcock, class and noir / Homer Pettey
- American civilization and its discontents: the persistence of evil in Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt / Carl Freedman
- Section II. Hitchcock: sexualities, genders, theories
- Alfred Hitchcock and feminist film theory (Yet Again) / Susan White
- Hitchcock and Queer Sexuality / David Greven
- Psycho and psychoanalysis / Stephen Tifft
- Section III. Hitchcock's American films: some case studies in form and content
- Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by northwest / Alan Nadel
- Looking up: class, England and America in The men who knew too much / Murry Pomerance
- Seeing red: the color bleed in Hitchcock / Brigitte Peucker
- Live nude Hitchcock: final frenzies / Mark Gobel
- Section IV. Hitchcock beyond Hitchcock
- The school of Hitchcock: in the wake of the master / Jonathan Freedman.