Richard Allen is Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Sam Ishii Gonzalès teaches at New York University, USA.

• Part 1 Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master theory vs practice, Deborah Knight and George McKnight; Hitchcock, fin de partie, Raymond Bellour; Hitchcock as sabateur, Susan Smith; the theatre in English Hitchcock. Part 2 Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir, James Naremore; the efforts of Eros Hitchcock with the surrealists, S. Ishii Gonzales; the cult of representation painting and sculpture in Hitchcock, Brigitte Peuker; Hitchcock's 'rope', Peter Wollen. Part 3 Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle Hitchcock on television, Tom Leitch; we might even get in the news reels the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films, Ina Rae Hark; you wanns check my thumb prints? 'Vertigo', the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism, Robert Corber; on espionage and 'The 39 Steps', Toby Miller. Part 4 Sexuality/romance: 'Marnie' and the foreclosure of lesbian identity, Jacqueline Joyce; Hitchcock's future, Lee Edelman; are snakes necessary? in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges, Lesley Brill; 'Vertigo' and feminist theory, Susan White. Part 5 Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy, Thomas Elsasser; returning to the scene of the crime 'Psycho' and the remake, William Rothman; James, Hitchcock and the fate of character, Paula Marantz Cohen; Hitchcock, Metasceptic, Richard Allen.