Reassessing the Hitchcock Touch

1. Introducing the Hitchcock Touch
Wieland Schwanebeck

Part I. Hitchcock’s Films

2. Facing the Past as Well as the Future: Music and Sound in Hitchcock’s Early British Sound Films
Claudia Bullerjahn

3. Between Caméra Stylo and the Making of Images: Hitchcock’s Cinematographers
Ralf Heiner Heinke

4. Hitchcock’s Plotting
Hans-Ulrich Mohr

5. Hitchcock’s Brunettes: Visualizing Queerness in the 1940s and 1950s
Gesine Wegner

6. Gazing and Constructing: Imag(in)ing Madeleine in Vertigo

Eckhard Pabst

Part II. The Paratextual Environment

7. “If I Won’t Be Myself, Who Will?” The Making of a Star Persona in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Nadine Seligmann

8. Alfred Hitchcock: Cinematic Seducer Frenzy and the Seduction Theory of Film
Marcus Stiglegger

9. The Visual Peak: Saul Bass as Hitchcock’s ‘Pictorial Consultant’
Stefan Jung

10. Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators Series
H. Alan Pickrell

Part III. Beyond Hitchcock

11. Jack of All Trades: Alfred Hitchcock’s Apprenticeship in Neubabelsberg, 1924/25
Andy Räder

12. Hitchcock—Powell—Ford
Charles Barr

13. Uncommon Dangers: Alfred Hitchcock and the Literary Contexts of the British Spy Thriller
Alan George Burton

14.
Jaws: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Wieland Schwanebeck

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Film Theory, Directing, Close Reading, Genre, Film History