Re-viewing Hitchcock : new critical perspectives / Robert E. Kapsis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapsis, Robert E., editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Film criticism--Great Britain.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction by Robert Kapsis

PART 1: ENDURING TRIUMPHS

1. The Lodger (1927): The First True Hitchcock Film

Henry K. Miller

2. The Two Blackmails From 1929: A Reputation Crosses the Sound Barrier

Bryony Dixon

3. "No Manners at All and Always Seeing Things": The Return of Hitchcock's Vanished Englishwomen in The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938)

J.E. Smyth

4. Rebecca's Gendered Reception: 1941 to the Present

Patricia White

5. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946): Two Hollywood

and Definitively American

Masterworks

Thomas Schatz

6. Re-Viewing Rear Window (1954)

Janet Staiger

7. North by Northwest (1959):

Nothing But Entertainment

Thomas Leitch

PART 2: CHANGING RECEPTIONS

8. "A director who can impose his own personality on his pictures":

British critics and Sabotage (1936)

James Chapman

9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956): as a Critical Lens on American Culture

Paula Marantz Cohen

10. "She Isn't Quite Herself Today." Psycho (1960): Before and After Queer Theory

David Greven

11. #MeToo and Angry Nature: The Changing Tides of Approaches to The Birds (1963)

Lucy Caroline Bolton

12. Vertigo (1958) and Marnie (1964): Two Reception Histories on Steroids

Robert Kapsis

13.

Rope (1948): A Late Bloomer

Neil Badmington

PART 3: FILMS ON AN UPWARDS TRAJECTORY

14. Downhill (1927)

15. Under Capricorn (1948)

Richard Allen

16. Trouble with Harry (1955)

Sidney Gottlieb

17. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

Elizabeth Bullock

18. The Wrong Man (1956)

Jason Isralowitz and Robert Kapsis

PART 4: FOUR RECEPTION ANOMALIES

19. Hitchcock and His Critics: The Fall and Rise of Strangers on a Train (1951)

20. Frenzy (1971): "Dark, Nasty, Full of Bile" ...and a Masterpiece?

Tania Modleski

21. 'One of the most uneven films in the history of cinema':

Topaz (1969)

22. What the Two Versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much Reveal About Film Criticism in the United States and Britain

PART 5: HITCHCOCK'S TELEVISION SERIES

23. The Final Frontier: Hitchcock's Television Work

24.

Towards a New Appreciation of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,

and Shamley Productions

Christina Lane

25. Life after Death: Preserving and Promoting Hitchcock's TV Persona

26. Travels in Hitchcock's Multiverse

Joel Gunz

PART 6: GLOBAL HITCHCOCK: BEYOND THE US AND THE UK

Western and Eastern Europe

27.France

Tifenn Brisset

28.

Germany

Jaimey Fisher

29. Italy

Andrea Minuz and Francesca Cantore

30.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Sergei Kapterev

Asia

31.South Korea

Hye Seung Chung

32. Japan

Daisuke Miya

33.

Mainland China

Sun Yi

Spanish-Speaking Territories

34.

Spain

Dona M. Kercher

35.

Mexico

Ana Rosas Mantecón

36.

Argentina

APPENDIX A

A "Signature Pattern" : The Importance of Music in Hitchcock's Films

Jack Sullivan

APPENDIX B

Deserter or Honored Exile? Views of Hitchcock from Wartime Britain

Charles Barr.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Re-viewing Hitchcock

ISBN:

9781839026232

1839026235

9781839026218

1839026219

Publisher Number:

40033198796

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