Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition viii
Preface to the First Edition xi
A Brief Chronology xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xx
Introduction xxiii
Part one: Taking Hitchcock Seriously 1
1. Hitch and His Public 17Jean Douchet
2. Hitchcock’s Imagery and Art 25Maurice Yacowar
3. Retrospective 35Robin Wood
4. Hitch as Matrix-Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema 47John Orr
Part two: Hitchcock in Britain 69
5. Hitchcock’s The Lodger 75Lesley W. Brill
6. Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail 85Leland Poague
7. Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder!: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera 96William Rothman
8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much 107Elisabeth Weis
9. Through a Woman’s Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps 114Charles l. P. Silet
10. Rematerializing the Vanishing “Lady”: Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation 126Patrice Petro
Part three: Hitchcock in Hollywood 137
11. All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt 145James McLaughlin
12. The Moral Universe of Hitchcock’s Spellbound 156Thomas Hyde
13. Notorious: Perversion par Excellence 164Richard Abel
14. Strangers on a Train 172Robin Wood
Part four: The Later Films 183
15. Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism 199Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson
16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man 212Marshall Deutelbaum
17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock 223Robin Wood
18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock, and Vertigo 234Marian E. Keane
19. North by Northwest 250Stanley Cavell
20. “Oh, I See.…”: The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock’s Hyper-Romantic Vision 264John P. Mccombe
21. Mark’s Marnie 280Michele Piso
22. The Queer Voice in Marnie 295Lucretia Knapp
23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy 312Tania Modleski
Part five: Hitchcock and Film Theory: A Psycho Dossier 327
24. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion 341Raymond Bellour
25. Psycho’s Allegory of Seeing 361Christopher D. Morris
26. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock’s Psycho 368Deborah Thomas
Index 377