edited by Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 192 pages :
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illustrations ;
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25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Includes filmography: pages 181-185
CONTENTS NOTE
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Love, American style: Hitchcock's Hollywood / Debra Fried -- Unveiling maternal desires: Hitchcock and American domesticity / Elsie B. Michie -- American shame: Rope, James Stewart, and the postwar crisis in American masculinity / Amy Lawrence -- From Spellbound to Vertigo: Alfred Hitchcock and therapeutic culture in America / Jonathan Freedman -- Hitchcock's Washington: spectatorship, ideology, and the "homosexual menace" in Strangers on a train / Robert J. Corber -- Rear-view mirror: Hitchcock, Poe, and the flaneur in America / Dana Brand -- Hitchcock and American character: the comedy of self-construction in North by northwest / Richard H. Millington -- Hitchcock's revised American vision: The wrong man and Vertigo / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Fearful cemetery / Michael Wood
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Alfred Hitchcock has long been understood as an inspired technician and master of abnormal psychology. The authors of this volume suggest, through readings of his American films, that he is also a cultural critic of remarkable insight and undeniable presence
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Hitchcock's America.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-1980-- Criticism and interpretation
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
National characteristics, American, in motion pictures