Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UKJason McEntee, South Dakota State University, USAMarkus Bohlmann, Seneca College, CanadaSean Moreland, University of Ottawa, CanadaAdrian Schober, Monash University, AustraliaBrian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, USAF.E. Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UKSamantha Lay, University of Houston, USACraig Martin, La Trobe University, AustraliaWilliam McBride, Illinois State University, USAKevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, USAPeter Lee, Drew University, USAElizabeth Ramsey, University of Southern California, USA

• Introduction: Hitchcock's Children; Debbie Olson 1. Hitchcock's Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address; Noel Brown 2. "The Future's Not Ours to See": How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock's American Movies; Jason McEntee 3. The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956); Elizabeth Ramsey 4. No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage; Peter Lee 5. "If You Ripped the Fronts Off Houses": Killing Innocence in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt; Markus Bohlmann and Sean Moreland 6. Daddy's Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train; Brian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy 7. Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry; Adrian Schober 8. Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Hitchcock's Marnie and The Birds; F. E. Pheasant-Kelly 9. The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds; Samantha Lay 10. "It's the End of the World!": Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and the Evil Children Film; Craig Martin 11. Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema; Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 12. Hitchcock's Stylized Capture of Post-Adolescent Fatheads; William McBride

" Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock amounts to a stunning collective appreciation by its editor and contributors of the significant role played by children and child-adults in Hitchcock - and of why the director's films, based on multiple points of view, favour 'liminality' over strict 'coherence'. This is cutting-edge film analysis of such Hitchcock masterworks as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956), Shadow of a Doubt , Strangers on a Train , The Trouble With Harry , and The Birds . Expert and illuminating." - Ken Mogg, contributor to A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock