|  | Leitch, Thomas / Poague, Leland (eds.)
A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock
WBCF - Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
 1. Edition April 2011
169.- Euro
2011. 624 Pages, Hardcover
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ISBN 978-1-4051-8538-7 - John Wiley & Sons
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Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship and contexts, influences, and collaborators. 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. This companion is essential reading for scholars, film enthusiasts, and anyone interested in this hugely influential filmmaker.
From the contents
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction (Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague).
Part I Background.
1. Hitchcock's Lives (Thomas Leitch).
2. Hitchcock's Literary Sources (Ken Mogg).
3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers (Charles Barr).
4. Hitchcock's Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time (Thomas Hemmeter).
Part II Genre.
5. Hitchcock and Romance (Lesley Brill).
6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama (Richard R. Ness).
7. Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock's Films (Paula Marantz Cohen
Part III Collaboration.
8. "Tell Me the Story So Far": Hitchcock and His Writers (Leland Poague).
9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock's Female Collaborators (Tania Modleski).
10. A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance (Susan White).
Part IV Style.
11. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock (Brigitte Peucker).
12. Hitchcock and Music (Jack Sullivan).
13. Some Hitchcockian Shots (Murray Pomerance).
Part V Development.
14. Hitchcock's Silent Cinema (Sidney Gottlieb).
15. Gaumont Hitchcock (Tom Ryall).
16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films (Ina Rae Hark).
17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros. (David Sterritt).
18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scène: 1954-60 (Joe McElhaney).
19. The Universal Hitchcock (William Rothman).
Part VI Auteurism.
20. French Hitchcock, 1945-55 (James M. Vest).
21. Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview (Janet Bergstrom).
22. Robin Wood's Hitchcock (Harry Oldmeadow).
Part VII Ideology.
23. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology (Toby Miller with Noel King).
24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie (Florence Jacobowitz).
25. Queer Hitchcock (Alexander Doty).
Part VIII Ethics.
26. Hitchcock and Philosophy (Richard Gilmore).
27. Hitchcock's Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object (Todd McGowan).
28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock (George Toles).
Part IX Beyond Hitchcock.
29. Hitchcock and the Postmodern (Angelo Restivo).
30. Hitchcock's Legacy (Richard Allen).
Index.
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