Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock''s prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur''s work from 1927''s silent The Lodger to his penultimate film, the controversial Frenzy of 1972. Bringing together leading international film scholars, critics and historians, the volume explores the reception histories of key Hitchcock titles. These include films that have enjoyed consistent critical success, such as Rebecca (1940), Rear Window (1954), and North by Northwest (1959), as well as those that have received shifting degrees of critical and scholarly praise, such as Sabotage (1936), Rope (1949), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963). Contributors examine how changing critical perspectives have shaped our understanding of Hitchcock''s films and legacy. The book also sheds light on Hitchcock''s lesser-known television work of the 1950s and 60s, reassessing its relationship to his film career.In addition, it expands the focus beyond Anglo-American contexts to consider how Hitchcock''s films have been received and interpreted in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contributors: Richard Allen, Neil Badmington, Charles Barr, Tifenn Brisset, Elizabeth Bullock, Francesca Cantore, James Chapman, Hye Seung Chung, Paula Marantz Cohen, Bryony Dixon, Jaimey Fisher, David Greven, Sidney Gottlieb, Joel Gunz, Jason Isralowitz, Robert Kapsis, Sergei Kapterev, Dona M. Kercher, Thomas Leitch, Christina Lane, Ana Rosas Mantecon, Henry K. Miller, Andrea Minuz, Daisuke Miya, Tania Modleski, J.E. Smyth, Thomas Schatz, Janet Staiger, Jack Sullivan, Sun Yi, Patricia White.

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Robert E. Kapsis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Film Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (1992); the e-book version was released in 2022. Shortly after its publication, Kapsis developed Multimedia Hitchcock, an innovative, interactive software project. Originally conceived as a pedagogical tool for his college courses on Hitchcock, the project grew into an interactive kiosk exhibited
at MoMA, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and at other museums and nonprofit institutions celebrating the Hitchcock Centennial in 1999. Kapsis is also editor of Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated Edition (2016), Jonathan Demme: Interviews, Charles Burnett: Interviews, and Conversations with Steve Martin; and coeditor (with Kathie Coblentz)of Clint Eastwood: Interviews (2006). He is currently working on a book on Hitchcock's posthumous reputation, to be published by Bloomsbury.

Kapsis's work on Hitchcock and the Hitchcockian has been featured in many publications and venues, including the New York Times, Oxford University Press's American National Biography, American Film, The Sociological Quarterly, Hitchcock Annual, Cineaste, and the Village Voice. It has also influenced the creation and development of documentaries about Hitchcock for the BBC, PBS's American Masters series, Universal's Dial H for Hitchcock: The Genius Behind the Showman, and promotional materials for the release of a Hitchcock stamp from the United States Postal Service.

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Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1926's silent The Lodger to his penultimate film, the controversial Frenzy of 1972.

Each of the chapters, written by eminent international film scholars, critics and historians, offers a detailed analyses of the historical reception of key Hitchcock films. These include films that have enjoyed consistent critical success, such as Rebecca (1940), Rear Window (1954), and North by Northwest (1959), as well as those that have received shifting degrees of critical and scholarly praise, such as Sabotage (1936), Rope (1949), Strangers on a Train (1951), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963). The contributors assess the significance of these changing critical perspectives and the extent to which they influence the meaning and significance of Hitchcock's films and filmmaking.

The book also sheds light on Hitchcock's lesser-known television work of the 1950s and the 60s, reassessing its relationship to his film career. In addition, it expands the focus beyond Anglo-American contexts to consider how Hitchcock's films have been received and interpreted in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Inhalt

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Robert E. Kapsis

PART 1: ENDURING TRIUMPHS

1. The Lodger (1926): The First True Hitchcock Film
   Henry K. Miller
2. The Two Blackmails From 1929: A Reputation Crosses the Sound Barrier
   Bryony Dixon
3. "No Manners at All and Always Seeing Things": The Return of Hitchcock's Vanished Englishwomen in The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938)
   J.E. Smyth
4. Rebecca's Gendered Reception: 1941 to the Present
   Patricia White
5. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Notorious (1946): Two Hollywood - and Definitively American - Masterworks
   Thomas Schatz
6. Re-Viewing Rear Window (1954)
   Janet Staiger

7. North by Northwest (1959): Nothing But Entertainment
   Thomas Leitch

   PART 2: CHANGING RECEPTIONS

8. "A director who can impose his own personality on his pictures":
   British critics and Sabotage (1936)
   James Chapman
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956): as a Critical Lens on American Culture
   Paula Marantz Cohen
10. "She Isn't Quite Herself Today." Psycho (1960): Before and After Queer Theory
    David Greven
11. #MeToo and Angry Nature: The Changing Tides of Approaches to The Birds (1963)
    Lucy Bolton
12. Vertigo (1958) and Marnie (1964): Two Reception Histories on Steroids
    Robert E. Kapsis

13. Rope (1948): A Late Bloomer
    Neil Badmington

    PART 3: FILMS ON AN UPWARDS TRAJECTORY

14. Downhill (1927)
    Henry K. Miller
15. Under Capricorn (1948)
    Richard Allen
16. Trouble with Harry (1955)
    Sidney Gottlieb
17. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
    Elizabeth Bullock

18. The Wrong Man (1956)
    Jason P. Isralowitz and Robert E. Kapsis

    PART 4: FOUR RECEPTION ANOMALIES

19. Hitchcock and His Critics: The Fall and Rise of Strangers on a Train (1951)
    Robert E. Kapsis
20. Frenzy (1972): "Dark, Nasty, Full of Bile" .and a Masterpiece?
    Tania Modleski
21. 'One of the most uneven films in the history of cinema':
    Topaz (1969)
    James Chapman

22. What the Two Versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much Reveal About Film Criticism in the United States and Britain
    Robert E. Kapsis

    PART 5: HITCHCOCK'S TELEVISION SERIES

23. The Final Frontier: Hitchcock's Television Work
    Thomas Leitch
24. Towards a New Appreciation of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,
    and Shamley Productions
    Christina Lane
25. Life after Death: Preserving and Promoting Hitchcock's TV Persona
    Robert E. Kapsis

26. Travels in Hitchcock's Multiverse
    Joel Gunz

    PART 6: GLOBAL HITCHCOCK: BEYOND THE US AND THE UK

27. Hitchcock and L'Écran français: At the Roots of the Politique des auteurs?
    Tifenn Brisset
28. Hitchcock in Germany-A Germanic Hitchcock?: Transnational Genre, Art Cinema, and Auteurism in 1970s/1980s Filmkritik and in the Work of Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold
    Jaimey Fisher
29. Alfred Hitchcock and Italian Film Criticism: "A Good Second-Rate Director"
    Francesca Cantore and Andrea Minuz
30. Alfred Hitchcock's Cinema in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia: Loud Absence
    Sergei Kapterev
31. Tracing Hitchcock in South Korea: From I Confess to Decision to Leave
    Hye Seung…