Hitchcock's Appetites

Casey McKittrick is an Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He regularly teaches courses in Film Interpretation, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, African American Literature, and American Literature surveys. He has published essays in The Velvet Light Trap, the anthologies Writing as Re-Vision and Porn and Philosophy, and reviews in several film and gender studies journals.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1 Hitchcock’s Hollywood DietChapter 2 The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic BelongingChapter 3 The Pleasures and Pangs of Hitchcockian ConsumptionChapter 4 Appetite and Temporality in Rear Window: Another Aspect of VoyeurismChapter 5 Childhood and the Challenge of Fat MasculinityChapter 6 Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of FatnessEpilogueEnhanced FilmographyBibliographyIndex

Deliciously fat with insights into Alfred Hitchcock's life and work, this book is about so many other things, too: appetite, weight, the body, gender, sexuality, childhood, the cinema. Casey McKittrick argues in this tantalizing study that we cannot fully grasp Hitchcock's film oeuvre without examining his life as a fat man. Drawing on fat studies as well as queer theory, McKittrick adds depth and nuance to our picture of the great director and his legendary appetites—and to our collective appetite for him. Highly recommended