After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality

Contents

Contents Introduction David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer 1 PART I: Psycho Recycled 13 For Ever Hitchcock: Psycho and Its Remakes Constantine Verevis 15 Hitchcockian Silence: Psycho and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs Lesley Brill 31 PART II: The Return of the Repressed 47 Shadows of Shadow of a Doubt Adam Knee 49 Psycho or Psychic? Hitchcock, Dead Again, and the Paranormal Ina Rae Hark 65 PART III: The Politics of Intertextuality 83 The Hitchcock Romance and the ’70s Paranoid Thriller R. Barton Palmer 85 Exposing the Lies of Hitchcock’s Truth Walter Metz 109 PART IV: Found in Translation 125 Red Blood on White Bread: Hitchcock, Chabrol, and French Cinema Richard Neupert 127 “You’re Tellin’ Me You Didn’t See”: Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Antonioni’s Blow-Up Frank P. Tomasulo 145 Melo-Thriller: Hitchcock, Genre, and Nationalism in Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz 173 “Knowing Too Much” about Hitchcock: The Genesis of the Italian Giallo Philippe Met 195 PART V: Theoretically Hitchcockian 215 Death at Work: Hitchcock’s Violence and Spectator Identification Robert Sklar 217 Hitchcock and the Classical Paradigm John Belton 235 PART VI: Modus Operandi 249 How to Steal from Hitchcock Thomas M. Leitch 251 Notes on Contributors 271 Index 275 vi contents AFTER HITCHCOCK THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...