Hitchcock and adaptation on the page and screen / Edited by Mark Osteen.

Other author Osteen, Mark.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Descriptionxxxviii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.

Contents Hitchcock and authorship. Thomas M. Leitch: Hitchcock the author -- Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick: Wrong men on the run: The 39 steps as Hitchcock's espionage paradigm -- Patrick Faubert: the role and presence of authorship in Suspicion -- Hitchcock adapting. Ken Mogg: Melancholy elephants: Hitchcock and ingenious adaptation -- Matthew Paul Carlson: Conrad's The secret agent, Hitchcock's Sabotage, and the inspiration of "public uneasiness" -- Leslie H. Abramson: Stranger(s) than fiction: adaptation, modernity, and the menace of fan culture in Hitchcock's Strangers on a train -- Heath A. Diehl: Reading Hitchcock/reading queer: adaptation, narrativity, and a queer mode of address in Rope, Strangers on a train, and Psycho -- Nicholas Andrew Miller: "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts": voyeurism and the spectacle of human suffering in Rear window -- John Bruns: "The proper geography": Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "The birds" -- Tony Williams: From Kaleidoscope to Frenzy: Hitchcock's second British homecoming -- Hitching a ride: the collaborations. Donna Kornhaber: Hitchcock's diegetic imagination, Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a doubt and Hitchcock's mise-en-scène -- Maria A. Judnick: "The name of Hitchcock! the fame of Steinbeck! The legacy of Lifeboat -- Christina Lane and Jo Botting: "What did Alma think?" continuity, writing, editing, and adaptation -- Adapting Hitchcock. Russell J. A. Kilbourn: The second look, the second death: W. G. Sebald's orphic adaptation of Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm: Dark adaptations: Robert Bloch and Hitchcock on the small screen -- Mark Osteen: Extraordinary renditions: Delillo's Point omega and Hitchcock's Psycho -- David Seed: The culture of spectacle in American psycho.
General noteIncludes filmography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013039264
ISBN9781442230873 (cloth : alk. paper)

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