Overview

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. Contains thirty chapters by the leading Hitchcock scholars Covers his long career, from his earliest contributions to other directors? silent films to his last uncompleted last film Details the enduring legacy he left to filmmakers and audiences alike

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Author:   L Poague ,  Leland Poague
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.258kg
ISBN:  

9781405185387

ISBN 10:   1405185384
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   08 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague Part I Background 9 1. Hitchcock's Lives 11 Thomas Leitch 2. Hitchcock's Literary Sources 28 Ken Mogg 3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers 48 Charles Barr 4. Hitchcock's Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time 67 Thomas Hemmeter Part II Genre 87 5. Hitchcock and Romance 89 Lesley Brill 6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama 109 Richard R. Ness 7. Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock's Films 126 Paula Marantz Cohen Part III Collaboration 139 8. Tell Me the Story So Far : Hitchcock and His Writers 141 Leland Poague 9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock's Female Collaborators 162 Tania Modleski 10. A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance 181 Susan White Part IV Style 199 11. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock 201 Brigitte Peucker 12. Hitchcock and Music 219 Jack Sullivan 13. Some Hitchcockian Shots 237 Murray Pomerance Part V Development 253 14. Hitchcock's Silent Cinema 255 Sidney Gottlieb 15. Gaumont Hitchcock 270 Tom Ryall 16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films 289 Ina Rae Hark 17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros. 309 David Sterritt 18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scene: 1954-60 329 Joe McElhaney 19. The Universal Hitchcock 347 William Rothman Part VI Auteurism 365 20. French Hitchcock, 1945-55 367 James M. Vest 21. Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview 387 Janet Bergstrom 22. Robin Wood's Hitchcock 405 Harry Oldmeadow Part VII Ideology 425 23. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology 427 Toby Miller with Noel King 24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie 452 Florence Jacobowitz 25. Queer Hitchcock 473 Alexander Doty Part VIII Ethics 491 26. Hitchcock and Philosophy 493 Richard Gilmore 27. Hitchcock's Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object 508 Todd McGowan 28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock 529 George Toles Part IX Beyond Hitchcock 553 29. Hitchcock and the Postmodern 555 Angelo Restivo 30. Hitchcock's Legacy 572 Richard Allen Index 592

Reviews

?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... at least until the next heavy-duty study of his work arrives.? (Psychobabble200, 20 March 2014) 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, 1 November 2011) ?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 ?A superior addition to film studies, with essays from scholarly voices both established and new. Hitchcock specialists - and others - will find much to enlighten, discuss and debate.? Leonard J. Leff, Oklahoma State University ?The authoritative cultural and historical perspectives of the essays, written by prominent scholars, provide an ideal complement to Robin Wood?s close readings of Hitchcock?s films.? Elisabeth Weis, author of The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track Readers who know a lot about Hitchcock will find this new Companion hard to put down, and neophytes could not find a better introduction to the ever-changing, ever-surprising field of Hitchcock studies. Bill Krohn Poague and Leitch?s A Companion to Hitchcock provides an excellent snapshot of the best and brightest current thinking on Hitchcock by a range of international scholars who offer new ideas about his life and work--his status as an auteur and his engagement with his collaborators, his unique stylistic concerns and his indebtedness to generic conventions, his moral vision and the ideological effects of his narrative choices. John Belton, Rutgers University

Teachers and students alike will find much to keep themselves busy in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock .. . at least until the next heavy-duty study of his work arrives. ( Psychobabble200 , 20 March 2014) 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, 1 November 2011)

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, 1 November 2011)

In summation, A Companion to Hitchcock will be requiredreading for anyone with more than a passing interest in thisdirector s films. (Cercles, 1 September2014) Teachers and students alike will find much to keepthemselves busy in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock... atleast until the next heavy-duty study of his workarrives. (Psychobabble200, 20 March 2014) A great resource for students of Hitchcock's films, craft,thought, influences, and aesthetics. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates, graduatestudents, researchers, faculty. (Choice, 1 November 2011)

Author Information

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he directs the Film Studies Program. His books include Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (1991), The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002), and, most recently, Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ (2007). Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University. With Marshall Deutelbaum, he edited A Hitchcock Reader (1986, 2009). His other books include Another Frank Capra (1994), Howard Hawks (1982), and, with William Cadbury, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory (1982).

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