Hitchcock's Films Revisited

by Wood, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780231126953
• ISBN10: 0231126956
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

When Hitchcock's Filmswas first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film -- one that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliography. When Robin Wood returned to his writings on Hitchcock's films and published Hitchcock's Films Revisitedin 1989, the multi-dimensional essays took on a new shape -- one that was tempered by Wood's own development as a critic. This new revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisitedincludes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a film scholar -- including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition includes all original eighteen essays and a new chapter on Marnietitled "Does Mark Cure Marnie? Or, 'You Freud, Me Hitchcock.'"

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xliii
Introduction (1988)	1	(54)
BOOK ONE HITCHOCK'S FILMS
Introduction (1965)	55	(31)
Strangers on a Train	86	(14)
Rear Window	100	(8)
Vertigo	108	(23)
North by Northwest	131	(11)
Psycho	142	(10)
The Birds	152	(21)
Marnie	173	(25)
Torn Curtain (1969)	198	(8)
Retrospective (1977)	206	(33)
Endnotes for Earlier Editions	229	(10)
BOOK TWO HITCHCOCK'S FILMS REVISITED
Plot Formations	239	(10)
Symmetry, Closure, Disruption: The Ambiguity of Blackmail	249	(26)
Norms and Variations: The 39 Steps and Young and Innocent	275	(13)
Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt	288	(15)
Star and Auteur: Hitchcock's Films with Bergman	303	(33)
The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia	336	(22)
The Men Who Knew Too Much (and the women who knew much better)	358	(13)
Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock	371	(17)
You Freud, Me Hitchcock: Marnie Revisited	388	(19)
Bibliography	407	(2)
Index	409