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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
"A great resource for students of Hitchcock's films, craft, thought, influences, and aesthetics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty." - Choice “In my view this book is the most exciting work on Hitchcock and one which will become a prime source for Hitchcockian scholars.” – Reference Reviews “This impressive anthology proves that there are plenty of new things to say about Hitchcock. A wide ranging and consistently intelligent compendium, it features essays on virtually every aspect of the great director's work by an array of his most astute commentators.” - James Naremore, Indiana University
Thomas Leitch (Edited by), T Poague (Author), Leland Poague (Edited by)
9781118797006, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2014
624 pages
24.4 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.907 kg
“In summation, A Companion to Hitchcock will be required reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in this director’s films." (Cercles, 1 September 2014) “Teachers and students alike will find much to keep themselves busy in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock.” (Psychobabble200, 20 March 2014)
“In my view this book is the most exciting work on Hitchcock and one which will become a prime source for Hitchcockian scholars.” – Reference Reviews
The most comprehensive volume ever published on Alfred Hitchcock, covering his career and legacy as well as the broader cultural and intellectual contexts of his work.
Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Part I Background 9 1. Hitchcock’s Lives 11 2. Hitchcock’s Literary Sources 28 3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers 48 4. Hitchcock’s Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time 67 Part II Genre 87 5. Hitchcock and Romance 89 6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama 109 7. Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock’s Films 126 Part III Collaboration 139 8. “Tell Me the Story So Far”: Hitchcock and His Writers 141 9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock’s Female Collaborators 162 10. A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance 181 Part IV Style 199 11. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock 201 12. Hitchcock and Music 219 13. Some Hitchcockian Shots 237 Part V Development 253 14. Hitchcock’s Silent Cinema 255 15. Gaumont Hitchcock 270 16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films 289 17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros. 309 18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scène: 1954–60 329 19. The Universal Hitchcock 347 Part VI Auteurism 365 20. French Hitchcock, 1945–55 367 21. Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock–Truffaut Interview 387 22. Robin Wood’s Hitchcock 405 Part VII Ideology 425 23. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology 427 24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie 452 25. Queer Hitchcock 473 Part VIII Ethics 491 26. Hitchcock and Philosophy 493 27. Hitchcock’s Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object 508 28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock 529 Part IX Beyond Hitchcock 553 29. Hitchcock and the Postmodern 555 30. Hitchcock’s Legacy 572 Index 592
Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague
Thomas Leitch
Ken Mogg
Charles Barr
Thomas Hemmeter
Lesley Brill
Richard R. Ness
Paula Marantz Cohen
Leland Poague
Tania Modleski
Susan White
Brigitte Peucker
Jack Sullivan
Murray Pomerance
Sidney Gottlieb
Tom Ryall
Ina Rae Hark
David Sterritt
Joe McElhaney
William Rothman
James M. Vest
Janet Bergstrom
Harry Oldmeadow
Toby Miller with Noel King
Florence Jacobowitz
Alexander Doty
Richard Gilmore
Todd McGowan
George Toles
Angelo Restivo
Richard Allen
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
