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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Other Authors: Freedman, Jonathan, 1954- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge companions to American studies.
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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.