Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Book One: Hitchcock's Films 1. Introduction 2. Strangers on a Train 3. Rear Window 4. Vertigo 5. North by Northwest 6. Psycho 7. The Birds 8. Marnie 9. Torn Curtain (1969) 10. Retrospective (1977) Endnotes from Earlier Editions Book Two: Hitchcock's Films Revisited 11. Plot FOrmations 12. Symmetry, Closure, Disruption: The Ambiguity of Blackmail 13. Norms and Variations: The 39 Steps and Young and Innocent 14. Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt 15. Star and Auteur: Hitchcock's Films with Bergman 16. The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia 17. The Men Who Knew Too Much (and the women who knew much better) 18. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock 19. You Freud, Me Hitchcock: Marnie Revisited Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film and as a necessary text in the growing body of Hitchcock criticism. This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic-including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life and have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition also includes a new chapter on Marnie.

About the Author

Robin Wood, a founding editor of CineAction, is the author of Sexual Politics and Narrative Film (Columbia, 1998) and Hollywood From Vietnam to Reagan (Columbia, 1985), among other books.

Reviews

In 1965, Wood, now professor of film studies at York University, authored the well-regarded Hitchcock's Films . Since then he has become an avowed Marxist and feminist, and had modified his auteurist views. From these perspectives, the work has been reprinted, extensively footnoted and ``corrected'' by bracketed insertions, and combined with several new essays which essentially comprise another complete book. Where the first book focuses on the director's mature works, the second one critiques somewhat less-appreciated films and provides an overall thematic context. In an illuminating new introduction, Wood extensively analyzes his and other film writers' approaches to the Hitchcock canon. Highly recommended for informed laypersons and scholars.-- Roy Liebman, California State Univ. Lib., Los Angeles