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Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock's films.

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Author:   R. Barton Palmer ,  Homer B. Pettey ,  Steven M. Sanders
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438463858

ISBN 10:   1438463855
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   01 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders Skepticism 1. Jealousy and Trust in The Lodger Graham Petrie 2. Fun with Suspicion Thomas Leitch 3. Heroic Satans and Other Hitchcockian Heresies Nick Haeffner 4. ""Guilt, Confession, and ... Then What?"": The Paradine Case and Under Capricorn Brian McFarlane 5. The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Strangers on a Train George Toles Immorality 6. Hitchcock's Immoralists Steven M. Sanders 7. Hitchcock the Amoralist: Rear Window and the Pleasures and Dangers of Looking Sidney Gottlieb 8. Voyeurism Revisited Richard Allen Moralizing 9. Alfred Hitchcock as Moralist Murray Pomerance 10. The Deepening Moralism of The Wrong Man R. Barton Palmer 11. Hitchcock and the Philosophical End of Film Jerold J. Abrams Moral Acts 12. The Dread of Ascent: The Moral and Spiritual Topography of Vertigo Alan Woolfolk 13. The Philosophy of Marriage in North by Northwest Jennifer L. Jenkins 14. ""The Loyalty of an Eel"": Issues of Political, Personal, and Professional Morality in (and around) Torn Curtain Neil Sinyard 15. Hobbes, Hume, and Hitchcock: The Case of Frenzy Homer B. Pettey Bibliography Alfred Hitchcock Selected Filmography Contributors Index"

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...a compelling collection of 15 essays. - PopMatters

Author Information

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. His previous books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein) and Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd), both also published by SUNY Press. Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Arizona. His previous books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with R. Barton Palmer. Steven M. Sanders is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Philosophy of Michael Mann (coedited with Aeon J. Skoble and R. Barton Palmer) and The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (coedited with R. Barton Palmer).

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