Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index.
Contents
Draped in the American flag : Cold War liberals and the resistance to theory -- Reconstructing homosexuality : Hitchcock and the homoerotics of spectatorial pleasure -- Resisting history : Rear window and the limits of postwar settlement -- The fantasy of the maternal voice : The Man who knew too much and the erotization of motherhood -- "There are many such stories" : Vertigo and the repression of historical knowledge -- Hitchcock through the looking glass : Psycho and the breakdown of the social.