Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock

Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
1: Childhood
· Behind prison bars
· "Came the dawn"
· Michael Balcon
· Woman to Woman
· Number Thirteen
· Introducing the future Mrs. Hitchcock
· A melodramatic shooting: The Pleasure Garden
· The Mountain Eagle
2: The first true Hitchcock: The Lodger
· Creating a purely visual form
· The glass floor
· Handcuffs and sex
· Why Hitchcock appears in his films
· Downhill
· Easy Virtue
· The Ring and One-Round Jack
· The Farmer's Wife
· The Griffith influence
· Champagne
· The last silent movie: The Manxman
3: Hitchcock's first sound film: Blackmail
· The Shuftan process
· Juno and the Paycock
· Why Hitchcock will never film Crime and Punishment
· What is suspense?
· Murder
· The Skin Game
· Rich and Strange
· Two innocents in Paris
· Number Seventeen
· Cats, cats everywhere
· Waltzes from Vienna
· The lowest ebb and the comeback
4: The Man Who Knew Too Much
· When Churchill was chief of police
· M
· From "The One Note Man" to the deadly cymbals
· Clarification and simplification
· The Thirty-nine Steps
· John Buchan's influence
· Understatement
· An old, bawdy story
· Mr. Memory
· Slice of life and slice of cake
5: The Secret Agent
· You don't always need a happy ending
· What do they have in Switzerland?
· Sabotage
· The child and the bomb
· An example of suspense
· The Lady Vanishes
· The plausibles
· A wire from David O. Selznick
· The last British film: Jamaica Inn
· Some conclusions about the British period
6: Rebecca: A Cinderella-like story
· "I've never received an Oscar"
· Foreign Correspondent
· Gary Cooper's mistake
· In Holland, windmills and rain
· The blood-stained tulip
· What's a MacGuffin?
· Flashback to The Thirty-nine Steps
· Mr. and Mrs. Smith
· "All actors are cattle"
· Suspicion
· The luminous glass of milk
7: Sabotage versus Saboteur
· A mass of ideas clutters up a picture
· Shadow of a Doubt
· Tribute to Thornton Wilder
· "The Merry Widow"
· An idealistic killer
· Lifeboat
· A microcosm of war
· Like a pack of dogs
· Return to London
· Modest war contribution: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache
8: Return to America
· Spellbound
· Collaboration with Salvador Dali
· Notorious
· "The Song of the Flame"
· The uranium MacGuffin
· Under surveillance by the FBI
· A film about the cinema
· The Paradine Case
· Can Gregory Peck play a British lawyer?
· An intricate shot
· Horny hands, like the devil!
9: Rope: From 7:30 to 9:15 in one shot
· Clouds of spun glass
· Colors and shadows
· Walls that fade away
· Films must be cut
· How to make noises rise from the street
· Under Capricorn
· Infantilism and other errors in judgment
· Run for cover!
· "Ingrid, it's only a movie!"
· Stage Fright
· The flashback that lied
· The better the villain, the better the picture
10: Spectacular comeback via Strangers on a
Train
· A monopoly on the suspense genre
· The little man who crawled
· A bitchy wife
· I Confess
· A "barbaric sophisticate"
· The sanctity of confession
· Experience alone is not enough
· Fear of the police
· Story of a ménage à trois
11: Dial M for Murder
· Filming in 3-D
· The theater confines the action
· Rear Window
· The Kuleshov experiment
· We are all voyeurs
· Death of a small dog
· The size of the image has a dramatic purpose
· The surprise kiss versus the suspense kiss
· The Patrick Mahon case and the Dr. Crippen case
· To Catch a Thief
· Sex on the screen
· The Trouble with Harry
· The humor of understatement
· The Man Who Knew Too Much
· A knife in the back
· The clash of cymbals
12: The Wrong Man
· Absolute authenticity
· Vertigo
· The usual alternatives: suspense or surprise
· Necrophilia
· Kim Novak on the set
· Two projects that were never filmed
· A political suspense movie
· North by Northwest
· The importance of photographic documentation
· Dealing with time and space
· The practice of the absurd
· The body that came from nowhere
13: Ideas in the middle of the night
· The longest kiss in screen history
· A case of pure exhibitionism
· Never waste space
· Screen imagery is make-believe
· Psycho
· Janet Leigh's brassiére
· Red herrings
· Directing the audience
· How Arbogast was killed
· A shower stabbing
· Stuffed birds
· How to get mass emotions
· Psycho: A film-maker's film
14: The Birds
· The elderly ornithologist
· The gouged-out eyes
· The girl in a gilded cage
· Improvisations
· The size of the image
· The scene that was dropped
· An emotional truck
· Electronic sounds
· Practical jokes
15: Marnie
· A fetishist love
· The Three Hostages, Mary Rose, and R.R.R.R.
· Torn Curtain
· The bus is the villain
· The scene in the factory
· Every film is a brand-new experience
· The rising curve
· The situation film versus the character film
· "I only read the London Times"
· A strictly visual mind
· Hitchcock a Catholic film-maker?
· A dream for the future: A film showing twenty-four
hours in the life of a city
16: Hitchcock's final years
· Grace Kelly abandons the cinema
· More on The Birds, Marnie, and Torn Curtain
· Hitch misses the stars
· The "great flawed films"
· A project that was dropped
· Topaz made to order for the front office
· Return to London with Frenzy
· The pacemaker and Family Plot
· Hitchcock laden down with tributes and honors
· Love and espionage
· The Short Night
· Hitchcock is ill, Sir Alfred is dead
· The end
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Selected Bibliography
Index of Film Titles
Index of Names

ISBN: 978-0671604295

Год издания: 1986

Язык: Английский