A Hitchcock Reader Book

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 1 Taking Hitchcock Seriously 1

1 Hitch and His Public Jean Douchet 17

2 Hitchcock's Imagery and Art Maurice Yacowar 25

3 Retrospective Robin Wood 35

4 Hitch as Matrix-Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema John Orr 47

Part 2 Hitchcock in Britain 69

5 Hitchcock's The Lodger Lesley W. Brill 75

6 Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail Leland Poague 85

7 Alfred Hitchcock's Murder!: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera William Rothman 96

8 Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much Elisabeth Weis 107

9 Through a Woman's Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps Charles L. P. Silet 114

10 Rematerializing the Vanishing "Lady": Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation Patrice Petro 126

Part 3 Hitchcock in Hollywood 137

11 All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt James McLaughlin 145

12 The Moral Universe of Hitchcock's Spellbound Thomas Hyde 156

13 Notorious: Perversion par Excellence Richard Abel 164

14 Strangers on a Train Robin Wood 172

Part 4 The Later Films 183

15 Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism Robert Stam And Roberta Pearson 199

16 Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man Marshall Deutelbaum 212

17 Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock Robin Wood 223

18 A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock, and Vertigo Marian E. Keane 234

19 North by Northwest Stanley Cavell 250

20 "Oh, I See....": The Birds and the Culminationof Hitchcock's Hyper-Romantic Vision John P. Mccombe 264

21 Mark's Marnie Michele Piso 280

22 The Queer Voice in Marnie Lucretia Knapp 295

23 Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy Tania Modleski 312

Part 5 Hitchcock and Film Theory: A Psycho Dossier 327

24 Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion Raymond Bellour 341

25 Psycho's Allegory of Seeing Christopher D. Morris 361

26 On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock's Psycho Deborah Thomas 368

Index 377