Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays

by Richard Allen (Editor), Sam Ishii-Gonzales (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838714260
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Richard Allen is Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Sam Ishii Gonzalès teaches at New York University, USA.
Richard Allen is Dean of the School of Creative Media and Chair Professor of Film and Media Art at City University Hong Kong / Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. He is the author of Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007) and, since 2001 he has edited, with Sid Gottlieb, The Hitchcock Annual.

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.

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From the Publisher

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