Contributor
Allen, Richard, 1921-
Imprint:London : British Film Institute, 1999.
Descriptionxxi, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I : The figure of the author -- The dandy in Hitchcock / Thomas Elsaesser -- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Some thoughts on Hitchcock's authorship / William Rothman -- Disruption, destruction, denial : Hitchcock as saboteur / Susan Smith -- The outer circle : Hitchcock on television / Thomas M. Leitch -- Part II : Hitchcock's aesthetics -- Rope : three hypotheses / Peter Wollen -- Touching the surface : Marnie, melodrama, modernism / Joe McElhaney -- Suspense and its master / Deborah Knight and george McKnight -- The Hitchcockian blot / Slavoj Zizek -- The cut of representation : painting and sculpture in Hitchcock / Brigitte Peucker -- 'If thine eye offend thee...' : Psycho and the art of infection / George Toles -- Part III : Sexuality/romance -- Hitchcock - endgame / Raymond Bellour -- The stolen raincoat and the bloodstained dress : Toung and innocent and Stage fright / Micahel Walker -- Redemptive comedy in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Preston Sturges : 'Are snakes necessary?' / Lesley brill -- Hitchcock, or the pleasures of metaskepticism / Richard Allen -- Hitchcock's future / Lee Edelman -- Part IV : Culture, politics, ideology -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir / James naremore -- Vertigo and problems of knowledge in feminist film theory / Susan White -- 'You wanna check my thumbprints?' : Vertigo, the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism / Robert J. Corber -- 39 steps to 'the borders of the possible' : Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer and the new cultural history / Toby Miller -- 'We might even get in the newsreels' : the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films / Ina Rae Hark.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
