Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock [electronic resource] /
Olson, Debbie.author.
Olson, Debbie C.,1961-
Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Hitchcock's Children; Debbie Olson -- 1. Hitchcock's Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address; Noel Brown -- 2. "The Future's Not Ours to See": How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock's American Movies; Jason McEntee -- 3. The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man who Knew Too Much (1934 and 1956); Elizabeth Ramsey -- 4. No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage; Peter Lee -- 5. "If You Ripped the Fronts Off Houses": Killing Innocence in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt; Markus Bohlmann and Sean Moreland -- 6. Daddy's Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train; Brian Walter, St. Louis College of Pharmacy -- 7. Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry; Adrian Schober -- 8. Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Hitchcock's Marnie and The Birds; F. E. Pheasant-Kelly -- 9. The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds; Samantha Lay -- 10. "It's the End of the World!": Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and the Evil Children Film; Craig Martin -- 11. Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema; Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- 12. Hitchcock's Stylized Capture of Post-Adolescent Fatheads; William McBride.
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980
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