Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction / R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders -- Skepticism -- Jealousy and trust in The lodger / Graham Petrie -- Fun with Suspicion / Thomas Leitch -- Heroic satans and other Hitchcockian heresies / Nick Haeffner -- "Guilt, confession and then what?": The Paradine Case and Under Capricorn / Brian McFarlane -- The forgotten cigarette lighter and other moral accidents in Strangers on a train / George Toles -- Immorality -- Hitchcock's immoralists / Steven M. Sanders -- Hitchcock the amoralist: Rear window and the pleasures and dangers of looking / Sidney Gottlieb -- Voyeurism revisited / Richard Allen -- Moralizing -- Alfred Hitchcock as moralist / Murray Pomerance -- The deepening moralism of The wrong man / R. Barton Palmer -- Hitchcock and the philosophical end of film / Jerold J. Abrams -- Moral acts -- The dread of ascent: the moral and spiritual topography of Vertigo / Alan Woolfolk -- The philosophy of marriage in North by northwest / Jennifer L. Jenkins -- "The loyalty of an eel": issues of political, personal and professional morality in (and around) Torn curtain / Neil Sinyard -- Hobbes, Hume, and Hitchcock: the case of Frenzy / Homer B. Pettey.
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