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Hitchcock'S Films Revisited
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An analysis of the films of Alfred Hitchcock, including Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, and Torn Curtain among others.
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Blackmail.
Alice
White
(Anny
Ondra),
the
first
of
Hitchcock's
"guilty
women,"
is
mocked
by
the
jester
as
she
is
about
to
resume
her
"respectable"
dress
after
the
death
of
Crewe.
The
morning
after
the
manslaughter.
Alice
at
breakfast
with
her
parents;
in
the
background
the
gossiping
neighbor
who
won't
stop
talking
about
the
"murder";
in
the
foreground,
Alice's
father
with
the
breadknife.
T
h
e
triangle:
Alice
silent
between
Frank
(John
Longden)
and
Tracy
(Donald
Calthrop)
in
their
struggle
for
domination.
The
death
of
Mr.
Memory
(Wylie
Watson).
Hannay
(still
bearing
the
handcuffs)
and
Pamela
(Madeleine
Carroll)
are
about
to
join
hands;
the
chorus
line
is
dimly
visible
in
the
background.
Young
and
Innocent.
The
birthday
party.
The
image,
remarkable
for
its
intri-
cate
patterning
of
looks,
balances
the
tentative
future
couple
(Derrick
de
Mar-
ney,
Nova
Pilbeam)
with
the
established
older
couple
(Basil
Radford,
Mary
Clare).
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Book One. Hitchcock's Films
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Strangers on a Train
- 3. Rear Window
- 4. Vertigo
- 5. North by Northwest
- 6. Psycho
- 7. The Birds
- 8. Marnie
- 9. Torn Curtain
- 10. Retrospective
- Endnotes for Earlier Editions
- Book Two. Hitchcock's Films Revisited
- 11. Plot Formations
- 12. Symmetry, Closure, Disruption: The Ambiguity of Blackmail
- 13. Norms and Variations: The 39 Steps and Young and Innocent
- 14. Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt
- 15. Star and Auteur: Hitchcock's Films with Bergman
- 16. The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia
- 17. The Men Who Knew Too Much (and the women who knew much better)
- 18. Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock
- Bibliography
- Index