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Klappentext Examining how West German 1968 arose out of transnational connections, from the presence of Third World student radicals, to exchanges with European avant-garde movements and the appropriation of Anglo-American cultural forms like rock and roll, this study explores the interplay of radical politics and popular culture in the explosion of '1968'. Zusammenfassung In this Companion! leading film scholars and critics of American culture and imagination trace Hitchcock's interplay with the Hollywood studio system! the Cold War! and new forms of sexuality! gender and desire over his thirty-year American career. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cycling through: Hitchcock and the studio system Thomas Schatz; 2. Making the brand Janet Staiger; 3. Hitchcock on location: America, icons, and the place of illusion Sara Blair; 4. Hitchcock, class, and noir Homer Pettey; 5. American civilization and its discontents: the persistence of evil in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt Carl Freedman; 6. Alfred Hitchcock and feminist film theory Susan White; 7. Hitchcock and queer sexuality David Greven; 8. Psycho and psychoanalysis Stephen Tiff; 9. Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by Northwest Alan Nadel; 10. Looking up: class, England, and America in The Men Who Knew Too Much Murray Pomerance; 11. Seeing red: the color bleed in Hitchcock Brigitte Peucker; 12. Live nude Hitchcock: final frenzies Mark Goble; 13. The school of Hitchcock: in the wake of the master Jonathan Freedman.
