Part 1 Hitchcock's poetics: suspence and its master theory vs practice, Deborah Knight and George McKnight.- Hitchcock, fin de partie, Raymond Bellour.- Hitchcock as sabateur, Susan Smith.- The theatre in English Hitchcock. Part 2 Hitchcock and modernism: Hitchcock at the margins of noir, James Naremore.- The efforts of Eros Hitchcock with the surrealists, S. Ishii Gonzales.- The cult of representation painting and sculpture in Hitchcock, Brigitte Peuker.- Hitchcock's 'rope', Peter Wollen. Part 3 Politics, ideology, television: the outer circle Hitchcock on television, Tom Leitch.- We might even get in the news reels the press and democracy in Hitchcock's World War II anti-fascist films, Ina Rae Hark.- You wanns check my thumb prints? 'Vertigo', the trope of invisibility and cold war nationalism, Robert Corber.- On espionage and 'The 39 Steps', Toby Miller. Part 4 Sexuality/romance: 'Marnie' and the foreclosure of lesbian identity, Jacqueline Joyce.- Hitchcock's future, Lee Edelman.- Are snakes necessary? in the films of Hitchcock and Preston Sturges, Lesley Brill.- 'Vertigo' and feminist theory, Susan White. Part 5 Fin de siecle Hitchcock: Hitchcock the dandy, Thomas Elsasser.- Returning to the scene of the crime 'Psycho' and the remake, William Rothman.- James, Hitchcock and the fate of character, Paula Marantz Cohen.- Hitchcock, Metasceptic, Richard Allen.