Hitchcock Annual

by Sidney Gottlieb (Editor)

Overview

Hitchcock Annual, volume 24, includes essays on unresolved ambiguities in Suspicion and trauma and recovery in Under Capricorn. A special feature of the volume is an expanded section reviewing current critical work on Hitchcock, including detailed review essays on recent books on such key topics as Hitchcock's comedy, collaborators, approach to acting, notion of pure cinema, and negotiations with censors through the years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231199575
Publisher:	Hitchcock Annual
Publication date:	08/02/2021
Edition description:	Volume 24
Pages:	151
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sidney Gottlieb is professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University.

Table of Contents

Spellbound by Sound: What We
Learn from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notes on Sound
Michael Slowik 1

Beyond the Blonde: The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock
Elisabeth Karlin 32

Vertigo and Birth: Echoes of Loss
Norman Buckley 56

Young and Innocent:Becoming Joanie and Hitchy
Christina Lane 73

Naughts and Crosses: Marital and Cinematic Gamesmanship in Alfred
Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Elizabeth Bullock 93

The Possessive Passions of Hitchcock’s Villains
Lesley Brill 121

Awakening from Hitchcock’s Nightmares Thomas Leitch 144

Out of the Fog
David Sterritt 174

Books, Candles, a Cassone, and a Length of Cord: “Too—Close
Viewing” Hitchcock’s Rope
Matthew Solomon 183

How the Words Appear
Neil Badmington 213

Patricia White,
Rebecca David Greven 222

Editorial Reviews

Hitchcock Annual is the vanguard of all things Hitchcockian, allowing film scholars to bring new life and fresh eyes to the master's filmography with thought-provoking essays and analysis.... Hitchcock Annual: Volume 18 is another solid entry in a proud tradition of film studies.

San Francisco Book Review - Glenn Dallas