Hitchcock Reader

Marshall Deutelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University, where he teaches courses in film history and theory. Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University.

• Preface to the Second Edition viiiPreface to the First Edition xiA Brief Chronology xiiiNotes on Contributors xvAcknowledgments xxIntroduction xxiiiPart one: Taking Hitchcock Seriously 11. Hitch and His Public 17Jean Douchet2. Hitchcock’s Imagery and Art 25Maurice Yacowar3. Retrospective 35Robin Wood4. Hitch as Matrix-Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema 47John OrrPart two: Hitchcock in Britain 695. Hitchcock’s The Lodger 75Lesley W. Brill6. Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail 85Leland Poague7. Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder!: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera 96William Rothman8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much 107Elisabeth Weis9. Through a Woman’s Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps 114Charles l. P. Silet10. Rematerializing the Vanishing “Lady”: Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation 126Patrice PetroPart three: Hitchcock in Hollywood 13711. All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt 145James McLaughlin12. The Moral Universe of Hitchcock’s Spellbound 156Thomas Hyde13. Notorious: Perversion par Excellence 164Richard Abel14. Strangers on a Train 172Robin WoodPart four: The Later Films 18315. Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism 199Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man 212Marshall Deutelbaum17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock 223Robin Wood18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock, and Vertigo 234Marian E. Keane19. North by Northwest 250Stanley Cavell20. “Oh, I See.…”: The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock’s Hyper-Romantic Vision 264John P. Mccombe21. Mark’s Marnie 280Michele Piso22. The Queer Voice in Marnie 295Lucretia Knapp23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy 312Tania ModleskiPart five: Hitchcock and Film Theory: A Psycho Dossier 32724. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion 341Raymond Bellour25. Psycho’s Allegory of Seeing 361Christopher D. Morris26. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock’s Psycho 368Deborah ThomasIndex 377

"The rewritten introductions to each section update scholarship on Hitchcock, engaging the reader in current debates among Hitchcock scholars and fans." (CHOICE, 2009) "The detail is extraordinary and the insights remarkable and the director? He would have been flattered, but still retorted "Oh it's only a movie!"" (M/C Reviews, May 2009)