Hitchcock Alfred - A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

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The Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Film Directors survey key directors whose work together constitutes what we refer to as the Hollywood and world cinema canons. Whether Haneke or Hitchcock, Bigelow or Bergman, Capra or the Coen brothers, each volume, comprised of 25 or more newly commissioned essays written by leading experts, explores a canonical, contemporary and/or controversial auteur in a sophisticated, authoritative, and multi-dimensional capacity. Individual volumes interrogate any number of subjects the director's oeuvre; dominant themes, well-known, worthy, and under-rated films; stars, collaborators, and key influences; reception, reputation, and above all, the director's intellectual currency in the scholarly world.

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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague

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A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

This edition first published 2011

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A companion to Alfred Hitchcock / edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague.

p. cm. (Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-8538-7 (hardback)

1. Hitchcock, Alfred, 18991980Criticism and interpretation. I. Leitch, Thomas M. II. Poague, Leland A., 1948

PN1998.3.H58C63 2011

791.430233092dc22

2010051052

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In memoriam
Robin Wood
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Notes on Contributors

Richard Allen is Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is author of Hitchcocks Romantic Irony and co-editor of three anthologies dealing with Hitchcocks work. With Sidney Gottlieb, he is co-editor of the Hitchcock Annual.

Charles Barr taught for many years at the University of East Anglia, helping to develop one of the pioneer British programs in Film Studies at undergraduate and graduate level. Since then, he has held Visiting Professorships at Washington University in St. Louis and at University College Dublin. His many publications on cinema include books on Ealing Studios, English Hitchcock, and Vertigo.

Janet Bergstrom, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, specializes in archivally-based, cross-national studies of such migr directors as F.W. Murnau, Jean Renoir, Fritz Lang, and Josef von Sternberg. She pursues the same approach as Associate Editor of Film History, as curator of retrospectives and events (Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna), and in documentaries created for DVD Murnaus 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film (2003), Introduction to Phantom (2006), Murnau and Borzage at Fox The Expressionist Heritage (2008), and Underworld: How It Came to Be (2010). She edited the anthology Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories and co-founded Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory.

Lesley Brill is the author of The Hitchcock Romance: Love and Irony in Hitchcocks Films (1988) and of numerous essays on film and photography. His latest book is Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema (2006). He teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University. She is the author of four nonfiction works, including Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism, and four novels, including, most recently, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper. Her essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in The Yale Review, The American Scholar, Raritan, The Southwest Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. She is the host of the Drexel InterView, a cable television show out of Philadelphia, and a co-editor of jml: Journal of Modern Literature.

Alexander Doty is a professor in the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana UniversityBloomington. He has written Making Things Perfectly Queer and Flaming Classics, and co-edited Out in Culture: Essays on Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture. He was recently the editor for two special issues of Camera Obscura titled Fabulous! The Diva Issues. His favorite (queer) Hitchcock film is Marnie, closely followed by Shadow of a Doubt.

Richard Gilmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgensteins Method in Philosophical Investigations (1999) and Doing Philosophy at the Movies (2005).

Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Connecticut. His publications on film include