Marshall Deutelbaum, Leland Poaque

A Hitchcock Reader

Herausgeber: Poague, Leland; Deutelbaum, Marshall

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Produktbeschreibung

Alfred Hitchcock, the "Master of Suspense," has been internationally recognized as a technical and stylistic innovator in the history of cinema. A Hitchcock Reader grows out of the editors desire as classroom teachers for a comprehensive and critical text in introductory or advanced courses devoted to the director s films.

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This new edition of
A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition: a comprehensive anthology that may be used as a critical text in introductory or advanced film courses, while also satisfying Hitchcock scholars by representing the rich variety of critical responses to the director s films over the years.
a total of 20 of Hitchcock's films are discussed in depth - many others are considered in passing
section introductions by the editors that contextualize the essays and the films they discuss
well-researched bibliographic references, which will allow readers to broaden the scope of their study of Alfred Hitchcock

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405155570
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2009
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9781405155571
• ISBN-10: 1405155574
• Artikelnr.: 25059662

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction. Part One: Taking Hitchcock Seriously [Section Intro
and Bibliography]. 1. Hitch and His Public: Jean Douchet. 2. Hitchcock's
Imagery and Art: Maurice Yacowar. 3. Retrospective: Robin Wood. 4. Hitch as
Matrix Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth Century Cinema: John Orr. Part Two:
Hitchcock in Britain [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 5. Hitchcock's The
Lodger: Lesley Brill. 6. Criticism and/as History: Leland Poague. 7. Alfred
Hitchcock's Murder: Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera:
William Rothman. 8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew
Too Much: Elizabeth Weis. 9. Through a Woman's Eyes: Sexuality and Memory
in The 39 Steps: Charles L. P. Silet. 10. Rematerializing the Vanishing
"Lady": Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation: Patrice Petro. Part Three:
Hitchcock in Hollywood [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 11. All in the
Family: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt: James McLaughlin. 12. The
Moral Universe of Hitchcock's Spellbound: Thomas Hyde. 13. Notorious:
Perversion par Excellence: Richard Abel. 14. Strangers on a Train: Robin
Wood. Part Four: The Later Films [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 15.
Hitchcock's Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism: Robert
Stam and Roberta Pearson. 16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man:
Marshall Deutelbaum. 17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential
Hitchcock: Robin Wood. 18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock
and Vertigo: Marian Keane. 19. North by Northwest: Stanley Cavell. 20. "Oh,
I See . . .": The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock's Romantic Vision:
John P. McCombes. 21. Mark's Marnie: Michael Piso. 22. Queer Marnie:
Lucretia Knapp. 23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy: Tania Modleski. Part
Five: Hitchcock and Film Theory: A Psycho Dossier. 24. Psychosis, Neurosis,
Perversion: Raymond Bellour. 25. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner
Life in Hitchcock's Psycho: Deborah Thomas. 26. Psycho's Allegory of
Seeing: Christopher Morris