The dandy in Hitchcock / Thomas Elsaesser -- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character / Paula Marantz Cohen -- Some thoughts on Hitchcock's authorship / William Rothman -- Disruption, destruction, denial : Hitchcock as saboteur / Susan Smith -- The outer circle : Hitchcock on television / Thomas M. Leitch -- Rope : three hypotheses / Peter Wollen -- Touching the surface : Marnie, melodrama, modernism / Joe McElhaney -- Suspense and its master / Deborah Knight and George McKnight -- The Hitchcockian blot / Slavoj Žižek -- The cut of representation : painting and sculpture in Hitchcock / Brigitte Peucker -- "If thine eye offend thee--" : Psycho and the art of infection / George Toles -- Hitchcock : endgame / Raymond Bellour ; translated by Hannah Thompson -- The stolen raincoat and the bloodstained dress : Young and innocent and Stage fright / Michael Walker -- Redemptive comedy in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Preston Sturges : "are snakes necessary?" / Lesley Brill -- Hitchcock, or, The pleasures of metaskepticism / Richard Allen -- Hitchcock's future / Lee Edelman -- Hitchcock at the margins of noir / James Naremore -- Vertigo and problems of knowledge in feminist film theory / Susan White --"You wanna check my thumbprints?" : Vertigo, the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism / Robert J. Corber -- 39 steps to "the borders of the possible" : Alfred Hitchcock, amateur observer and the new cultural history / Toby Miller -- "We might even get in the newsreels" : the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films / Ina Rae Hark -- Bibliography : 1990-1999.