A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

by Leitch, Thomas; Poague, Leland

• ISBN13: 9781405185387
• ISBN10: 1405185384
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influences, and collaborators, on the other. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock authoritatively maps the body of work generated in response to the director and his films, compiling essays from some of the world's most noted scholars in the emerging field of Hitchcock studies.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 9
Hitchcock's Lives	p. 11
Hitchcock's Literary Sources	p. 28
Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers	p. 48
Hitchcock's Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time	p. 67
Genre	p. 87
Hitchcock and Romance	p. 89
Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama	p. 109
Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock's Films	p. 126
Collaboration	p. 139
"Tell Me the Story So Far": Hitchcock and His Writers	p. 141
Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock's Female Collaborators	p. 162
A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance	p. 181
Style	p. 199
Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock	p. 201
Hitchcock and Music	p. 219
Some Hitchcockian Shots	p. 237
Development	p. 253
Hitchcock's Silent Cinema	p. 255
Gaumont Hitchcock	p. 270
Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films	p. 289
From Transatlantic to Warner Bros.	p. 309
Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scene: 1954-60	p. 329
The Universal Hitchcock	p. 347
Auteurism	p. 365
French Hitchcock, 1945-55	p. 367
Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview	p. 387
Robin Wood's Hitchcock	p. 405
Ideology	p. 425
Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology	p. 427
Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie	p. 452
Queer Hitchcock	p. 473
Ethics	p. 491
Hitchcock and Philosophy	p. 493
Hitchcock's Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object	p. 508
Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock	p. 529
Beyond Hitchcock	p. 553
Hitchcock and the Postmodern	p. 555
Hitchcock's Legacy	p. 572
Index	p. 592
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