Contents About This Volume, Douglas A. Cunningham vii On Hitchcock, Douglas A. Cunningham xii Hitchcock’s Biography, Cole Smith xxv Critical Contexts Mirroring a Century: Alfred Hitchcock and His Historical Contexts, Douglas A. Cunningham 3 Hitchcock and His Women, Kerry Linfoot 17 Hitchcock’s “Female Gothic” Experimentation in Spellbound and Notorious, Sheri Chinen Biesen 36 Everyone’s a Critic: Hitchcock’s Evolving Prestige, Douglas A. Cunningham 49 Critical Readings The Other Hitchcock: No Suspense, but (Re)marriage Instead (Three Early Films), Julie Michot and Dominique Sipière 63 The Traumatic Cultural Dimensions of Adolescent Girlhood in Champagne, Blackmail, and Young and Innocent, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Zárate, and Patricia Vazquez 79 Rebecca: Auteur, Auteur, John Price 95 Space in Rear Window Revisited: Questions of Spectatorship, Community, and Surveillance, Thomas Lubek 109 The Uncanny Forests of Woman and Land in Vertigo, Kellianne H. Matthews 126 Norman Can’t Leave the Nest: Freudian Theory and the Uncanny Use of Taxidermied Birds in Psycho, Erika Rothberg 141 Foucault Takes Wing: Bodega Bay as Panopticon in The Birds, Douglas A. Cunningham 158 The Murderer in the Garden: Something Rotten in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy, K. Brenna Wardell 173 v Performance and Textual Disjuncture: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot, Justin Wyatt 192 Between Cinema and Life: Biopics on Alfred Hitchcock, Ana Daniela Coelho 209 American Modern Architecture as Frame and Character in Hitchcock’s Cinematic Spaces, Christine Madrid French 226 Hitch Puts a Bird on It: Paul Klee’s Influence on the Master of Suspense, Joel Gunz 246 Resources Chronology of Alfred Hitchcock’s Life 267 Filmography 275 Bibliography 277 About the Editor 291 Contributors 293 Index 299 vi Critical Insights.

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