Hitchcock's Moral Gaze by Palmer, R. Barton -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction

An Unrivaled Figure A Philosophical Filmmaker Hitchcock and Catholicism Moralism, Not Moralizing I Confess: What We Say, Whom We Tell Notes Works Cited

Skepticism

1. Jealousy and Trust in The Lodger

Factual and Fictional Sources for the Film Hitchcock and Stannard’s Script Jealousy and Trust in the Film Postscript Works Cited and Consulted

2. Fun with Suspicion

Works Cited

3. Heroic Satans and Other Hitchcockian Heresies

Notes Works Cited

4. “Guilt, Confession, and … Then What?”: The Paradine Case and Under Capricorn

Note Works Cited

5. The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Strangers on a Train

Works Cited

Immorality

6. Hitchcock’s Immoralists

Matters of Morality Three Immoralist Perspectives Two Immoralists Why Be Moral? Morality and Rationality Morality and Advantage Self and Others How to Do Things with Hitch Notes Works Cited

7. Hitchcock the Amoralist: Rear Window and the Pleasures and Dangers of Looking

Note Works Cited

8. Voyeurism Revisited

Defining Voyeurism Cine-voyeurism The Fictional Voyeur Rear Window Ethics Note Works Cited

Moralizing

9. Alfred Hitchcock as Moralist

Wrong Men Natural Expression A Surface Life Morality in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Lodging in Guilt Note Works Cited and Consulted

10. The Deepening Moralism of The Wrong Man

Notes Works Cited

11. Hitchcock and the Philosophical End of Film

Danto on the End of Art Danto and the Philosophical End of Film Deleuze on Hitchcock Keaton’s Spectator Cinema Rear Window and Sherlock Jr. Two Forms of Film Dialectic Psycho North by Northwest Rope The Birds After the End of Film Note Works Cited

Moral Acts

Therapeutic Dead-Ends Psychological Adolescence Symptomatic Conflicts Out of the Past The False Mirror of Possibility Circles of Futility Notes Works Cited

13. The Philosophy of Marriage in North by Northwest

Notes Works Cited

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15. Hobbes, Hume, and Hitchcock: The Case of Frenzy

Notes Works Cited

Bibliography Alfred Hitchcock Selected Filmography Contributors Index Back Cover