Hitchcock's America

by Freedman, Jonathan; Millington, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780195119053
• ISBN10: 0195119053
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Alfred Hitchcock has long been understood as an inspried technician and master of abnormal psychology. The authors of this volume suggest, through new readings of his American films, that he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable presence. With new intensity andspecificity, Hitchbock's America looks at Hitchcock's analysis of and engagement with American culture. His films emerge as our riches history of American middle-class culture at mid-century.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	3	(12)
Jonathan Freedman
Richard H. Millington
1 Love, American Style: Hitchcock's Hollywood	15	(14)
Debra Fried
2 Unveiling Maternal Desires: Hitchcock and American Domesticity	29	(26)
Elsie B. Michie
3 American Shame: Rope, James Stewart, and the Postwar Crisis in American Masculinity	55	(22)
Amy Lawrence
4 From Spellbound to Vertigo: Alfred Hitchcock and Therapeutic Culture in America	77	(22)
Jonathan Freedman
5 Hitchcock's Washington: Spectatorship, Ideology, and the "Homosexual Menace" in Strangers on a Train	99	(24)
Robert J. Corber
6 Rear-View Mirror: Hitchcock, Poe, and the Flaneur in America	123	(12)
Dana Brand
7 Hitchcock and American Character: The Comedy of Self-Construction in North by Northwest	135	(20)
Richard H. Millington
8 Hitchcock's Revised American Vision: The Wrong Man and Vertigo	155	(18)
Paula Marantz Cohen
9 Fearful Cemetery	173	(8)
Michael Wood
Filmography	181	(6)
Index	187