Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Chapter 2 Alfred Hitchcock’s Missing Children: Genre, Auteurship, and Audience Address

Chapter 3 “The Future’s Not Ours to See”: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies

Chapter 4 The Child Who Knew Too Much: Liminality in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956)

Chapter 5 No Laughing Matter: Imperiling Kids and Country in Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936)

Chapter 6 “If You Rip the Fronts Off Houses”: Killing Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Chapter 7 Daddy’s Girl: The Knowing Innocent in Strangers on a Train (1951)

Chapter 8 Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Chapter 9 Between Knowingness and Innocence: Child Ciphers in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) and The Birds (1963)

Chapter 10 The Child Hero in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963)

Chapter 11 “It’s the End of the World!”: The Influence of The Birds on the Evil Child Film

Chapter 12 Psycho without a Cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema

Chapter 13 Alfred Hitchcock’s Stylized Capture of Postadolescent Fatheads