The Cambridge companion to Alfred Hitchcock / [Edited by] Jonathan Freedman, University of Michigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freedman, Jonathan, 1954- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan Freedman

Section I. Hitchcock encounters America, America encounters Hitchcock: roots and offshoots

Cycling through: Hitchcock and the studio system / Thomas Schatz

Making the brand / Janet Staiger

Hitchcock on location: America, icons, and the place of illusion / Sara Blair

Hitchcock, class and noir / Homer Pettey

American civilization and its discontents: the persistence of evil in Hitchcock's Shadow of a doubt / Carl Freedman

Section II. Hitchcock: sexualities, genders, theories

Alfred Hitchcock and feminist film theory (Yet Again) / Susan White

Hitchcock and Queer Sexuality / David Greven

Psycho and psychoanalysis / Stephen Tifft

Section III. Hitchcock's American films: some case studies in form and content

Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by northwest / Alan Nadel

Looking up: class, England and America in The men who knew too much / Murry Pomerance

Seeing red: the color bleed in Hitchcock / Brigitte Peucker

Live nude Hitchcock: final frenzies / Mark Gobel

Section IV. Hitchcock beyond Hitchcock

The school of Hitchcock: in the wake of the master / Jonathan Freedman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107514881

1107514886

OCLC:

898206142