Intimate violence : Hitchcock sex and queer theory Introduction: intimate violence Queer Hitchcock: Psycho and North by Northwest Youre a strange girl Charlie : sexual hegemony in Shadow of a doubt Mirrors without images: Spellbound Making a meal of manhood: Rope orality and queer anguish The fairgrounds of desire: paranoia and masochism in Strangers on a train The death mother in Psycho: Hitchcock femininity and queer desire Marnies queer resilience Epilogue: Melanies birds: deconstructing the heroine