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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Hitchcock'S Films Revisited
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Blackmail.
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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
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