A Hitchcock Reader

Alfred Hitchcock, the "Master of Suspense," has been internationally recognized as a technical and stylistic innovator in the history of cinema. A Hitchcock Reader grows out of the editors′ desire as classroom teachers for a comprehensive and critical text in introductory or advanced courses devoted to the director′s films. Yet the book should also satisfy scholars by providing an updated anthology representing the rich variety of critical responses that Hitchcock′s films have evoked over the years. This new edition of A Hitchcock Reader aims to preserve what has been so satisfying and successful in the first edition. The new volume provides updated scholarship and new editorial introductions, including a general introduction to the volume, added visuals, and a new comprehensive bibliography.

Preface. Introduction. Part One: Taking Hitchcock Seriously [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 1. Hitch and His Public: Jean Douchet. 2. Hitchcock’s Imagery and Art: Maurice Yacowar. 3. Retrospective: Robin Wood. 4. Hitch as Matrix Figure: Hitchcock and Twentieth Century Cinema: John Orr. Part Two: Hitchcock in Britain [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 5. Hitchcock’s The Lodger: Lesley Brill. 6. Criticism and/as History: Leland Poague. 7. Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder : Theater, Authorship, and the Presence of the Camera: William Rothman. 8. Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much: Elizabeth Weis. 9. Through a Woman’s Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps: Charles L. P. Silet. 10. Rematerializing the Vanishing "Lady": Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation: Patrice Petro. Part Three: Hitchcock in Hollywood [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 11. All in the Family: Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt: James McLaughlin. 12. The Moral Universe of Hitchcock’s Spellbound: Thomas Hyde. 13. Notorious : Perversion par Excellence: Richard Abel. 14. Strangers on a Train: Robin Wood. Part Four: The Later Films [Section Intro and Bibliography]. 15. Hitchcock’s Rear Window : Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism: Robert Stam and Roberta Pearson. 16. Finding the Right Man in The Wrong Man: Marshall Deutelbaum. 17. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock: Robin Wood. 18. A Closer Look at Scopophilia: Mulvey, Hitchcock and Vertigo: Marian Keane. 19. North by Northwest: Stanley Cavell. 20. "Oh, I See . . .": The Birds and the Culmination of Hitchcock′s Romantic Vision: John P. McCombes. 21. Mark’s Marnie: Michael Piso. 22. Queer Marnie: Lucretia Knapp. 23. Rituals of Defilement: Frenzy: Tania Modleski. Part Five: Hitchcock and Film Theory : A Psycho Dossier. 24. Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion: Raymond Bellour. 25. On Being Norman: Performance and Inner Life in Hitchcock’s Psycho: Deborah Thomas. 26. Psycho’s Allegory of Seeing: Christopher Morris

Marshall Deutelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University, where he teaches courses in film history and theory. Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University.

"The rewritten introductions to each section update scholarship on Hitchcock, engaging the reader in current debates among Hitchcock scholars and fans." ( CHOICE , 2009) "The detail is extraordinary and the insights remarkable and the director? He would have been flattered, but still retorted "Oh it′s only a movie!"" ( M/C Reviews , May 2009)