Hitch and his public / Jean Douchet -- Hitchcock's imagery and art / Maurice Yacowar -- Retrospective / Robin Wood -- Hitch as matrix figure: Hitchcock and twentieth century cinema / John Orr -- Hitchcock's The lodger / Lesley W. Brill -- Criticism and/as history: rereading Blackmail / Leland Poague -- Alfred Hitchcock's murder: theater, authorship, and the presence of the camera / William Rothman -- Consolidation of a classical style: The man who knew too much / Elizabeth Weis -- Through a woman's eyes: sexuality and memory in The 39 steps / Charles L.P. Silet -- Rematerializing the vanishing "lady": feminism, Hitchcock, and interpretation / Patrice Petro -- All in the family: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt / James McLaughlin -- The moral universe of Hitchcock's Spellbound / Thomas Hyde -- Notorious: perversion par excellence / Richard Abel -- Strangers on a train / Robin Wood -- Hitchcock's Rear window: reflexivity and the critique of voyeurism / Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson -- Finding the right man in The wrong man / Marshall Deutelbaum -- Male desire, male anxiety: the essential Hitchcock / Robin Wood -- A closer look at scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock and Vertigo / Marian E. Keane -- North by northwest / Stanley Cavell -- "Oh, I see": The birds and the culmination of Hitchcock's romantic vision / John P. McCombe -- Mark's Marnie / Michele Piso -- The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp -- Rituals of defilement: Frenzy / Tania Modleski -- Psychosis, neurosis, perversion / Raymond Bellour -- Psycho's allegory of seeing / Christopher D. Morris -- On being Norman: performance and inner life in Hitchcock's Psycho / Deborah Thomas
"Alfred Hitchcock, the "Master of Suspense," has been internationally recognized as a technical and stylistic innovator in the history of cinema. A Hitchcock Reader grows out of the editors' desire as classroom teachers for a comprehensive and critical text in introductory or advanced courses devoted to the director's films. Yet the book should also satisfy scholars by providing an updated anthology representing the rich variety of critical responses that Hitchcock's films have evoked over the years." "This new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying - and successful - in the first edition. This new edition, however, will update scholarship since publication of the first edition; offer entirely new editorial matter, including a general introduction to the volume; more visuals; and comprehensive bibliographies of suggested readings, references, and works cited."--BOOK JACKET
