Palmer / Pettey / Sanders Hitchcock's Moral Gaze

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6386-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, R. Barton

Pettey, Homer B.

Sanders, Steven M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders

Skepticism

1. Jealousy and Trust in The Lodger
Graham Petrie

2. Fun with Suspicion
Thomas Leitch

3. Heroic Satans and Other Hitchcockian Heresies
Nick Haeffner

4. “Guilt, Confession, and. Then What?”: The Paradine Case and Under Capricorn
Brian McFarlane

5. The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Strangers on a Train
George Toles

Immorality

6. Hitchcock’s Immoralists
Steven M. Sanders

7. Hitchcock the Amoralist: Rear Window and the Pleasures and Dangers of Looking
Sidney Gottlieb

8. Voyeurism Revisited
Richard Allen

Moralizing

9. Alfred Hitchcock as Moralist
Murray Pomerance

10. The Deepening Moralism of The Wrong Man
R. Barton Palmer

11. Hitchcock and the Philosophical End of Film
Jerold J. Abrams

Moral Acts

12. The Dread of Ascent: The Moral and Spiritual Topography of Vertigo
Alan Woolfolk

13. The Philosophy of Marriage in North by Northwest
Jennifer L. Jenkins

14. “The Loyalty of an Eel”: Issues of Political, Personal, and Professional Morality in (and around) Torn Curtain
Neil Sinyard

15. Hobbes, Hume, and Hitchcock: The Case of Frenzy
Homer B. Pettey

Bibliography
Alfred Hitchcock Selected Filmography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. His previous books include Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity (coedited with William H. Epstein) and Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor (coedited with David Boyd), both also published by SUNY Press. Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Literature at the University of Arizona. His previous books include Film Noir and International Noir, both coedited with R. Barton Palmer. Steven M. Sanders is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Philosophy of Michael Mann (coedited with Aeon J. Skoble and R. Barton Palmer) and The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (coedited with R. Barton Palmer).