Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors x


Introduction 1
Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague


Part I Background 9


1. Hitchcock’s Lives 11
Thomas Leitch


2. Hitchcock’s Literary Sources 28
Ken Mogg


3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers 48
Charles Barr


4. Hitchcock’s Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time 67
Thomas Hemmeter


Part II Genre 87


5. Hitchcock and Romance 89
Lesley Brill


6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama 109
Richard R. Ness


7. Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock’s Films 126
Paula Marantz Cohen


Part III Collaboration 139


8. “Tell Me the Story So Far”: Hitchcock and His Writers 141
Leland Poague


9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock’s Female Collaborators 162
Tania Modleski


10. A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance 181
Susan White


Part IV Style 199


11. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock 201
Brigitte Peucker


12. Hitchcock and Music 219
Jack Sullivan


13. Some Hitchcockian Shots 237
Murray Pomerance


Part V Development 253


14. Hitchcock’s Silent Cinema 255
Sidney Gottlieb


15. Gaumont Hitchcock 270
Tom Ryall


16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films 289
Ina Rae Hark


17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros. 309
David Sterritt


18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scène: 1954–60 329
Joe McElhaney


19. The Universal Hitchcock 347
William Rothman


Part VI Auteurism 365


20. French Hitchcock, 1945–55 367
James M. Vest


21. Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock–Truffaut Interview 387
Janet Bergstrom


22. Robin Wood’s Hitchcock 405
Harry Oldmeadow


Part VII Ideology 425


23. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology 427
Toby Miller with Noel King


24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie 452
Florence Jacobowitz


25. Queer Hitchcock 473
Alexander Doty


Part VIII Ethics 491


26. Hitchcock and Philosophy 493
Richard Gilmore


27. Hitchcock’s Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object 508
Todd McGowan


28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock 529
George Toles


Part IX Beyond Hitchcock 553


29. Hitchcock and the Postmodern 555
Angelo Restivo


30. Hitchcock’s Legacy 572
Richard Allen


Index 592

About the Author

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University ofDelaware, where he directs the Film Studies Program. His booksinclude Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (1991), The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002), and, mostrecently, Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gonewith the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (2007). Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa StateUniversity. With Marshall Deutelbaum, he edited AHitchcock Reader (1986, 2009). His other books includeAnother Frank Capra (1994), Howard Hawks (1982), and,with William Cadbury, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory(1982).

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