Alfred Hitchock and film noir : the darker side /
"Alfred Hitchcock was a major figure in the development and flourishing of film noir. His noir films became an inspirational foundation of the neo-noir movement beginning in the 1970s, from Brian de Palma's mash-up homages to Hitchcock originals such as Obsession (1976) and Body Double (19...
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Edinburgh :
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[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Dark Side and Hitchcock's Early Noirs / R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey
- The 39 Steps (1935) and the Hard-Boiled Tradition / Homer B. Pettey
- Hitchcock's Gothic Noir (Rebecca [1940] and The Birds [1962]): Haunted and Haunting Women and Les Oiselles Fatales / Julie Grossman
- The Americanization of Hitchcock: The Precariousness of Democratic Agency in War Noir / Alan Woolfolk
- Suspicion (1941): A Noir Woman's Film / Florence Jacobowitz
- Unhitched: Joan Harrison's Noir Marriage Plots / Mark Osteen
- Noir Americana Aesthetics in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) / Elisabeth Bronfen
- What's Love Got to Do with It? Reading Spellbound (1945) Through Marnie (1964) in the Time of #MeToo / Thomas Leitch
- Designing the Notorious Woman: Costume, Characterization, and Star Persona in the Fabrication of the 'Femme Fatale' / Helen Hanson
- The In-Between of Stage and Screen: Rope (1948), Stage Fright (1950), and Dial M for Murder (1954) / Bruce Isaacs
- Upending Noir in Strangers on a Train (1951) / Lee Clark Mitchell
- I Confess (1953): Hitchcock and the "Great Darkness" / Jim Leach
- Crossfire of Knowledge: Noir and Tropical Dualism / Murray Pomerance
- The Wrong Man (1956): Hitchcock's Contribution to the Noir "Film of Fact" Production Cycle / R. Barton Palmer
- The Midge Ending: Vertigo (1958) and The Role of the Third Woman / Jans B. Wager
- Territorial Imperative: the Dark Landscape of the Body in Psycho (1960) and Frenzy (1972) / Jennifer L. Jenkins
- The Weak Link in the Chain: Copenhagen and Cold War Noir in Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966) and Topaz (1969) / Ian Scott - Epilogue: Rear Window (1954) and North by Northwest (1959) / Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer.