Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

Thomas Leitch is Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he directs the Film Studies Program. Leland Poague is Professor of English at Iowa State University

“In summation, A Companion to Hitchcock will be required reading for anyone with more than a passing interest in this director’s films."  (Cercles, 1 September 2014)“Teachers and students alike will find much to keep themselves busy in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock.”  (Psychobabble200, 20 March 2014)"A great resource for students of Hitchcock's films, craft, thought, influences, and aesthetics. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice “In my view this book is the most exciting work on Hitchcock and one which will become a prime source for Hitchcockian scholars.” – Reference Reviews

• Notes on Contributors xIntroduction 1Thomas Leitch and Leland PoaguePart I Background 91. Hitchcock’s Lives 11Thomas Leitch2. Hitchcock’s Literary Sources 28Ken Mogg3. Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers 48Charles Barr4. Hitchcock’s Narrative Modernism: Ironies of Fictional Time 67Thomas HemmeterPart II Genre 875. Hitchcock and Romance 89Lesley Brill6. Family Plots: Hitchcock and Melodrama 109Richard R. Ness7. Conceptual Suspense in Hitchcock’s Films 126Paula Marantz CohenPart III Collaboration 1398. “Tell Me the Story So Far”: Hitchcock and His Writers 141Leland Poague9. Suspicion: Collusion and Resistance in the Work of Hitchcock’s Female Collaborators 162Tania Modleski10. A Surface Collaboration: Hitchcock and Performance 181Susan WhitePart IV Style 19911. Aesthetic Space in Hitchcock 201Brigitte Peucker12. Hitchcock and Music 219Jack Sullivan13. Some Hitchcockian Shots 237Murray PomerancePart V Development 25314. Hitchcock’s Silent Cinema 255Sidney Gottlieb15. Gaumont Hitchcock 270Tom Ryall16. Hitchcock Discovers America: The Selznick-Era Films 289Ina Rae Hark17. From Transatlantic to Warner Bros. 309David Sterritt18. Hitchcock, Metteur-en-scène: 1954–60 329Joe McElhaney19. The Universal Hitchcock 347William RothmanPart VI Auteurism 36520. French Hitchcock, 1945–55 367James M. Vest21. Lost in Translation? Listening to the Hitchcock–Truffaut Interview 387Janet Bergstrom22. Robin Wood’s Hitchcock 405Harry OldmeadowPart VII Ideology 42523. Accidental Heroes and Gifted Amateurs: Hitchcock and Ideology 427Toby Miller with Noel King24. Hitchcock and Feminist Criticism: From Rebecca to Marnie 452Florence Jacobowitz25. Queer Hitchcock 473Alexander DotyPart VIII Ethics 49126. Hitchcock and Philosophy 493Richard Gilmore27. Hitchcock’s Ethics of Suspense: Psychoanalysis and the Devaluation of the Object 508Todd McGowan28. Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock 529George TolesPart IX Beyond Hitchcock 55329. Hitchcock and the Postmodern 555Angelo Restivo30. Hitchcock’s Legacy 572Richard AllenIndex 592