A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Editor(s): Thomas Leitch, Leland Poague

Published Online: 3 SEP 2012 06:11AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405185387

Online ISBN: 9781444397321

DOI: 10.1002/9781444397321

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The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.

  • Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars
  • Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors' silent films to his last uncompleted last film
  • Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–8)

      Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague

  3. Part I: Background

    1. Chapter 1

      Hitchcock's Lives (pages 9–27)

      Thomas Leitch

    2. Chapter 2

      Hitchcock's Literary Sources (pages 28–47)

      Ken Mogg

    3. Chapter 3

      Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers (pages 48–66)

      Charles Barr

    4. Chapter 4

      Hitchcock's Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time (pages 67–85)

      Thomas Hemmeter

  4. Part II: Genre

    1. Chapter 5

      Hitchcock and Romance (pages 87–108)

      Lesley Brill

    2. Chapter 6

      Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama (pages 109–125)

      Richard R. Ness

    3. Chapter 7

      Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock's Films (pages 126–137)

      Paula Marantz Cohen

  5. Part III: Collaboration

    1. Chapter 8

      “Tell Me the Story So Far”: Hitchcock and His Writers (pages 139–161)

      Leland Poague

    2. Chapter 9

      Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock's Female Collaborators (pages 162–180)

      Tania Modleski

    3. Chapter 10

      A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance (pages 181–197)

      Susan White

  6. Part IV: Style

    1. Chapter 11

      Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock (pages 199–218)

      Brigitte Peucker

    2. Chapter 12

      Hitchcock and Music (pages 219–236)

      Jack Sullivan

    3. Chapter 13

      Some Hitchcockian Shots (pages 237–252)

      Murray Pomerance

  7. Part V: Development

    1. Chapter 14

      Hitchcock's Silent Cinema (pages 253–269)

      Sidney Gottlieb

    2. Chapter 15

      Gaumont Hitchcock (pages 270–288)

      Tom Ryall

    3. Chapter 16

      Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films (pages 289–308)

      Ina Rae Hark

    4. Chapter 17

      From Transatlantic to Warner Bros (pages 309–328)

      David Sterritt

    5. Chapter 18

      Hitchcock, Metteur-En-Scène: 1954–60 (pages 329–346)

      Joe McElhaney

    6. Chapter 19

      The Universal Hitchcock (pages 347–364)

      William Rothman

  8. Part VI: Auteurism

    1. Chapter 20

      French Hitchcock, 1945–55 (pages 365–386)

      James M. Vest

    2. Chapter 21

      Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock–Truffaut Interview (pages 387–404)

      Janet Bergstrom

  9. Part VII: Ideology

    1. Chapter 23

      Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology (pages 425–451)

      Toby Miller and Noel King

    2. Chapter 24

      Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie (pages 452–472)

      Florence Jacobowitz

    3. Chapter 25

      Queer Hitchcock (pages 473–489)

      Alexander Doty

  10. Part VIII: Ethics

    1. Chapter 26

      Hitchcock and Philosophy (pages 491–507)

      Richard Gilmore

    2. Chapter 27

      Hitchcock's Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object (pages 508–528)

      Todd McGowan

    3. Chapter 28

      Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock (pages 529–552)

      George Toles

  11. Part IX: Beyond Hitchcock

    1. Chapter 29

      Hitchcock and the Postmodern (pages 553–571)

      Angelo Restivo

    2. Chapter 30

      Hitchcock's Legacy (pages 572–591)

      Richard Allen

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      Index (pages 592–610)

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