Hitchcock's moral gaze /edited by R. Barton Palmer, Steven M. Sanders, and Homer B. Pettey. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Skepticism -- Jealousy and trust in The lodger / Fun with Suspicion / Heroic satans and other Hitchcockian heresies / "Guilt, confession and then what?": The Paradine Case and Under Capricorn / The forgotten cigarette lighter and other moral accidents in Strangers on a train / Immorality -- Hitchcock's immoralists / Hitchcock the amoralist: Rear window and the pleasures and dangers of looking / Voyeurism revisited / Moralizing -- Alfred Hitchcock as moralist / The deepening moralism of The wrong man / Hitchcock and the philosophical end of film / Moral acts -- The dread of ascent: the moral and spiritual topography of Vertigo / The philosophy of marriage in North by northwest / "The loyalty of an eel": issues of political, personal and professional morality in (and around) Torn curtain / Hobbes, Hume, and Hitchcock: the case of Frenzy / R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders -- Graham Petrie -- Thomas Leitch -- Nick Haeffner -- Brian McFarlane -- George Toles -- Steven M. Sanders -- Sidney Gottlieb -- Richard Allen -- Murray Pomerance -- R. Barton Palmer -- Jerold J. Abrams -- Alan Woolfolk -- Jennifer L. Jenkins -- Neil Sinyard -- Homer B. Pettey.



9781438463865

2016048537


Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 --Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic Books.

PN1998 / .H583 2017