Overview

This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.

Full Product Details

Author:   S.Ishii Gonzales ,  S. Ishii Gonzales
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Edition:   1999 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.714kg
ISBN:  

9780851707365

ISBN 10:   085170736
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   01 September 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master theory vs practice, Deborah Knight and George McKnight.- Hitchcock, fin de partie, Raymond Bellour.- Hitchcock as sabateur, Susan Smith.- The theatre in English Hitchcock. Part 2 Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir, James Naremore.- The efforts of Eros Hitchcock with the surrealists, S. Ishii Gonzales.- The cult of representation painting and sculpture in Hitchcock, Brigitte Peuker.- Hitchcock's 'rope', Peter Wollen. Part 3 Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle Hitchcock on television, Tom Leitch.- We might even get in the news reels the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films, Ina Rae Hark.- You wanns check my thumb prints? 'Vertigo', the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism, Robert Corber.- On espionage and 'The 39 Steps', Toby Miller. Part 4 Sexuality/romance: 'Marnie' and the foreclosure of lesbian identity, Jacqueline Joyce.- Hitchcock's future, Lee Edelman.- Are snakes necessary? in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges, Lesley Brill.- 'Vertigo' and feminist theory, Susan White. Part 5 Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy, Thomas Elsasser.- Returning to the scene of the crime 'Psycho' and the remake, William Rothman.- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character, Paula Marantz Cohen.- Hitchcock, Metasceptic, Richard Allen.

Reviews

Scholarly, wide ranging . . . an entertataining analysis of Hitchcockian attributes ... should find space on the bookshelf of any self-respecting film critic, media academic or cinematic student of the great master. -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly

"""An excellent overview of the relationship between biography and history, and the underlying debates."" - Melanie Nolan, National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, Australia ""Historical biography is a topic which historians have neglected for far too long, and this incisive and thought-provoking survey fills a real gap in the literature."" - Jane Ridley, University of Buckingham, UK"

Author Information

Richard Allen is Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Sam Ishii Gonzalès teaches at New York University, USA.

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