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Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

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  • © 2014

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  1. Debbie Olson
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Debbie Olson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address

    • Noel Brown
    Pages 11-30

  4. “The Future’s Not Ours to See”: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies

    • Jason T. McEntee
    Pages 31-46

  5. The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956)

    • D. Elizabeth Ramsey
    Pages 47-66

  6. No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936)

    • Peter W. Lee
    Pages 67-85

  7. “If You Rip the Fronts Off Houses”: Killing Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    • Markus P. J. Bohlmann, Sean Moreland
    Pages 87-112

  8. Daddy’s Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train (1951)

    • Brian Walter
    Pages 113-126

  9. Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955)

    • Adrian Schober
    Pages 127-159

  10. Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) and The Birds (1963)

    • Fran Pheasant-Kelly
    Pages 161-174

  11. The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)

    • Samantha Lay
    Pages 175-192

  12. “It’s the End of the World!”: The Influence of The Birds on the Evil Child Film

    • Craig Martin
    Pages 193-217

  13. Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema

    • Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
    Pages 219-235

  14. Alfred Hitchcock’s Stylized Capture of Postadolescent Fatheads

    • William Thomas McBride
    Pages 237-263

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-276
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About this book

Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.

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" Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock amounts to a stunning collective appreciation by its editor and contributors of the significant role played by children and child-adults in Hitchcock - and of why the director's films, based on multiple points of view, favour 'liminality' over strict 'coherence'. This is cutting-edge film analysis of such Hitchcock masterworks as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956), Shadow of a Doubt , Strangers on a Train , The Trouble With Harry , and The Birds . Expert and illuminating." - Ken Mogg, contributor to A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

About the authors

Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK Jason McEntee, South Dakota State University, USA Markus Bohlmann, Seneca College, Canada Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa, Canada Adrian Schober, Monash University, Australia Brian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, USA F.E. Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK Samantha Lay, University of Houston, USA Craig Martin, La Trobe University, Australia William McBride, Illinois State University, USA Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, USA Peter Lee, Drew University, USA Elizabeth Ramsey, University of Southern California, USA

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