Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1 Alfred Hitchcock tries to catch a bus in North by Northwest 21 Figure 2 Orson Welles in F for Fake 22 Figure 3 Stanley Kubrick composes Jack Nicholson in the documentary about the making of The Shining 24 Figure 4 The darkness ofThe Magnificent Ambersons 29 Figure 5 The labyrinth of Orson Welles’sThe Trial 33 Figure 6 Seducer and seductress in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita 39 Figure 7 The threatening close- up of Uncle Charlie at the dinner table in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt 45 Figure 8 Heywood Floyd reads instructions for the zero gravity toilet in 2001: A Space Odyssey 47 Figures 9– 12 Some incarnations of Orson Welles: Harry Lime in Carol Reed’s The Third Man; Mr. Arkadin; Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil; Falstaff inChimes at Midnight 59– 62 Figure 13 Alex on display in A Clockwork Orange 66 Figure 14 The return of the gaze. Lars Thorwald sees Jeffries (and, by implication, the audience) in Hitchcock’s Rear Window 71 • ix Figure 15 Shadow of a Doubt: Young Charlie and Uncle Charlie in a film noir bar: “And I brought you nightmares.” 73 Figures 16– 17 Tony Perkins in Psycho and The Trial 74– 75 Figure 18 The sad, lost woman: Emma inShadow of a Doubt 79 Figure 19 A triptych of despair and frustration. The end of Thompson’s first visit to Susan Alexander at the nightclub in Citizen Kane 88 Figure 20 Deep focus in Citizen Kane. Young Charlie’s mother signs him over to Mr. Thatcher. 89 Figure 21 Mike O’Hara tells his story about the sharks— to the sharks, in The Lady from Shanghai 100 Figure 22 Shootout in the hall of mirrors in The Lady from Shanghai 101 Figure 23 Akim Tamiroff as Jakob Zouk inMr. Arkadin 102 Figure 24 Vargas wrestles with the acid thrower in Touch of Evil 106 Figure 25 The influence ofTouch of Evil on Psycho 111 Figure 26 “Wouldn’t hurt a fly.” The end ofPsycho. 113 Figure 27 Hank and Tana in Touch of Evil 114 Figure 28 Titorelli’s room in The Trial 116 Figure 29 A triptych of the battle sequence in Chimes at Midnight 118– 119 Figure 30 A high- angle shot in Shadow of a Doubt 123 Figure 31 Two corridors: Midge disappears, and the ghost of Madeleine appears in the hallways of Vertigo 127 Figure 32 “This matter is best disposed of from a great height . over water.” North by Northwest 129 Figure 33 Alex in the record boutique in A Clockwork Orange 135 x • Illustrations Figure 34 A nightmare of an orgy in Eyes Wide Shut 140 Figure 35 Reconciliation in the toy store at the end of Eyes Wide Shut 141 Figure 36 Heywood Floyd delivers a boring speech in a conference hall on the moon in 2001: A Space Odyssey 146 Figure 37 Ziegler’s bathroom in Eyes Wide Shut 149 Figure 38 Dave sees himself old and dying at the end of 2001 150 Figure 39 Dave dismantles HAL while a prerecorded message on a television monitor informs him that HAL is in control of the mission in 2001 151 Figure 40 Elster’s power over Scottie is seen in his dominance in the frame in Vertigo 167 Figure 41 Saving Alicia in Notorious 170 Figure 42 Trash talk in the latrine in Full Metal Jacket 176 Figure 43 “Mein Führer, I can walk!” The Nazi reborn in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 179 Figure 44 “I have heard it before. .” Levinsky and the seashell in The Immortal Story 184 Figure 45 “It’s not hot. It’s cold.” Aunt Fanny breaks down in The Magnificent Ambersons 189 Figures 46– 47 Scottie and Midge discuss their relationship in Vertigo. The high- angle extreme close- up of Midge speaks volumes. 194– 195 Figure 48 The surreal allegory of the camps in Welles’s The Trial 201 Figure 49 Apocalyptic fornication: Major Kong rides the bomb to Doomsday in Dr. Strangelove 207 Figure 50 The last sequence ofBarry Lyndon: a ceremony of accounting and loss 210 Illustrations • xi .

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