The Cambridge companion to Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alfred Hitchcock was, despite his English origins and early career, an American master. Arriving on US shores in 1939, for the next three decades he created a series of masterpieces that redefined the nature and possibilities of cinema itself: Rebecca, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, V...

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Other Authors: Freedman, Jonathan, 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge companions to American studies.
Subjects:
Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.
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Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of 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.

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