Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch

Wieland Schwanebeck is Assistant Lecturer in the Institute of English and American Studies at TU Dresden, Germany. His research focuses on impostor characters, gender, film history, and adaptation. He is the author and co-editor of books on impostors, con men, and masculinity studies.

• 1. Introducing the Hitchcock Touch.- 2. Facing the Past as Well as the Future: Music and Sound in Hitchcock’s Early British Sound Films.- 3. Between Caméra Stylo and the Making of Images: Hitchcock’s Cinematographers.- 4. Hitchcock’s Plotting.- 5. Hitchcock’s Brunettes: Visualizing Queerness in the 1940s and 1950s.- 6. Gazing and Constructing: Imag(in)ing Madeleine in Vertigo.- 7. “If I Won’t Be Myself, Who Will?”: The Making of a Star Persona in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.- 8. Alfred Hitchcock: Cinematic Seducer. Frenzy and the Seduction Theory of Film.- 9. The Visual Peak: Saul Bass as Hitchcock’s ‘Pictorial Consultant’.- 10. Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators Series.- 11. Jack of All Trades: Alfred Hitchcock’s Apprenticeship in Neubabelsberg, 1924/25.- 12. Hitchcock--Powell--Ford.- 13.Uncommon Dangers: Alfred Hitchcock and the Literary Contexts of the British Spy Thriller.- 14. Jaws: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.