Hitchcock's Appetites
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why appetites?
Why Hitchcock?
Hitchcock studies and fat studies: An interdisciplinary repulsion?
Hitchcock, feminism, and embodiment
How Hitchcock’s body matters
The genius of tall, thin, and handsome
Chapter 1 Hitchcock’s Hollywood diet
The makings of a media giant
The arrival of the “300-Pound Prophet”
Selznick’s fat commodity
Chapter 2 The Hitchcock cameo:
Fat self-fashioning and cinematic belonging
“The Real Me (The Thin One)”:
Another origin story of the cameo
The (Meso) textual play of the cameo:
Blackmail, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Stage Fright
A typology of the Hitchcock cameo
Chapter 3 The pleasures and pangs of Hitchcockian consumption
Screening the revolting body
The poetics of potables
“Drink It Down”:
An Hitchcockian imperative
Lactose and intolerance:
The poisonous meanings of milk
Hitchcockian consumption
and the carnivalesque
Food, sex, murder: The Hitchcockian
trinity of pleasure
Hitchcock and the signifying food chain
Chapter 4 Appetite and temporality in Rear Window: Another aspect of voyeurism
An eye for a stomach:
The instructive case of Miss Torso
Framing the Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Girl
The problem of fit: Imagining change,
growth, and proportion
When seeing is not believing
“I want no part of her”: Women and
the comedy of corporeal errors
Time, change, and ambivalence
Chapter 5 Childhood and the challenge of fat masculinity
“You’ll outgrow it”: Hitchcock’s youth
Suffer little children:
Hitchcock and cinematic childhood
Loss, danger, absence: The semiotics of Hitchcock’s filmic children
The Wrong Man and the
appetites of Cain and Abel
Chapter 6 Hitchcock and the
queer lens of fatness
Hitchcock and the fat closet
A sense of sex: Queer romance in
Hitchcock’s cinema
Cinematic vicarity: Surrogate versus
prosthetic identification
The Tickles: Subjectivities without bodies
Epilogue
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Enhanced Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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