Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Alfred Hitchcock’s Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address....Pages 11-30
“The Future’s Not Ours to See”: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies....Pages 31-46
The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956)....Pages 47-66
No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936)....Pages 67-85
“If You Rip the Fronts Off Houses”: Killing Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)....Pages 87-112
Daddy’s Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train (1951)....Pages 113-126
Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955)....Pages 127-159
Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) and The Birds (1963)....Pages 161-174
The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)....Pages 175-192
“It’s the End of the World!”: The Influence of The Birds on the Evil Child Film....Pages 193-217
Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema....Pages 219-235
Alfred Hitchcock’s Stylized Capture of Postadolescent Fatheads....Pages 237-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-276