Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Gary McCarron is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is also the Graduate Chair of Simon Fraser University’s program for Graduate Liberal Studies.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Re-viewing Hitchcock’s Films; 1.The Incidental MacGuffin: Equivalence and Substitution; 2.The Myth of Ideal Form and Hitchcock’s Quest for Pure Cinema; 3.Ambiguity and Complexity in The Birds; 4.Telling the Truth and The Wrong/ed Man; 5.Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail and the Problem of Moral Agency; 6.Hitchcock’s Debt to Silence: Time and Space in The Lodger; 7.Hitchcock’s Deferred Dénouement and the Problem of Rhetorical Form; 8.Moralizing Uncertainty: Suspicion and Faith in Hitchcock’s; Suspicion; Index

A seminal and ground-breaking work of original scholarship, "Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock" by Professor Gary McCarron will hold a very special appeal to readers with an interest in film criticism in general, and an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic philosophy in particular. Exceptional, informative, thought-provoking, and unique, "Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock" is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, film school, and college/university library Cinematic Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. -- Midwest