Sir Alfred Hitchcock

The evenings are getting cooler.  It’s early in the semester and you still have free time to watch some films.  Perhaps you’ve decided to check out the Film Studies minor, and you want to immerse yourself in it.

Time to brush up in your Hitchcock.  We just added a few more of his films to our collection, bringing our total of Hitchcock films to over 50.  Here are the latest additions to our collection (i.e., this is what I cataloged yesterday):

• Alfred Hitchcock, the masterpiece collection: bonus features
• The birds
• Family plot
• Frenzy
• I confess
• Lifeboat
• The man who knew too much
• Marnie
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Murder! / The skin game
• Psycho
• Rear window
• Rich and strange
• The ring / The manxman
• Rope
• Saboteur
• Shadow of a doubt
• Stage fright
• Strangers on a train
• Suspicion
• Topaz
• Torn curtain
• The trouble with Harry
• The wrong man
• Vertigo

For some really early Hitchcock, check out Alfred Hitchcock: the legend begins.  It includes:

• The lady vanishes
• The farmer’s wife
• The manxman
• The Cheney vase (from Alfred Hitchcock presents)
• The sorcerer’s apprentice (from Alfred Hitchcock presents)
• Rich and strange
• The thirty-nine steps
• Secret agent
• Champagne
• Blackmail
• Easy virtue
• Jamaica Inn
• The lodger
• The ring
• Young and innocent
• Juno and the paycock
• Sabotage
• The skin game
• Number seventeen
• The man who knew too much

Science; 21st century writers; Films

Science of everyday things / edited by Neil Schlager ; written by Judson Knight. Farmington Hills, Mi : Gale Group, 2002. (Click here to access resource)

Major 21st century writers: a selection of sketches from contemporary authors / Tracey L. Matthews, project editor. Detroit : Thomson/Gale, 2005. (Click here to access resource)

VideoHound’s golden movie retriever/ Jim Craddock, editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale, 2001-.

• (2005 ed.: Click here to access resource)
• (2006 ed.: Click here to access resource)
• (2007 ed.: Click here to access resource)

Hollywood’s censor; Interpersonal relationships; Identity, gender, and sexuality

Hollywood’s censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration / Thomas Doherty. New York : Columbia University Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The ethics of interpersonal relationships / Robert W. Firestone and Joyce Catlett. London : Karnac, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Identity, gender, and sexuality: 150 years after Freud / edited by Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber. London : Karnac, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Popular culture

Cotton, Trystan T., and Kimberly Springer, eds. Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Tryon, Chuck. Reinventing cinema: movies in the age of media convergence. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gray, Jonathan, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson, eds. Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era. New York: NYU Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Asian American cinema; health care debates; Samuel Beckett

Mimura, Glen M. Ghostlife of third cinema: Asian American film and video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Taylor, Gary, and Helen Hawley. Key debates in health care. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gibson, Andrew. Samuel Beckett. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Routledge Classics – Part III

Kant, Immanuel. The moral law: groundwork of the metaphysics of morals.Trans. H.J. Paton. London: Routledge: 2005. (Publisher’s description)

Irigaray, Luce. Je, tu, nous: toward a culture of difference: with a personal note by the author. Trans. Alison Martin. London: Ruotledge, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Žižek, Slavoj. Enjoy your symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out. London: Routledge, 2008. (Publisher’s description)

Sartre, Jean-Paul. What is literature? Trans. Bernard Frechtman. London: Routledge, 2001.(Publisher’s description)

Weil, Simone. Letter to a priest. Trans. A.F. Wills. London: Routledge, 2002. (Publisher’s description)

Midgley, Mary. Wickedness. London: Routledge, 2001.(Publisher’s description)

Routledge Classics – Part I

Ricoeur, Paul. The rule of metaphor: the creation and meaning in language. Trans. Robert Czerny. London: Routledge, 2003.(Publisher’s description)

Russell, Bertrand. What I believe. London: Routledge, 2004. (Publisher’s description)

hooks, bell. Reel to real: race, class and sex at the movies. London: Routledge, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Russell, Bertrand. Sceptical essays. London: Routledge, 2004.(Publisher’s description)

Adorno, Theodor W. The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture. London: Routledge, 2001.(Publisher’s description)

Burke, Edmund. A philosophical enquiry into the sublime and beautiful.London: Routledge: 2008.(Publisher’s description)

Film studies

Neibaur, James L. The fall of Buster Keaton : his films for M-G-M, Educational Pictures, and Columbia. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Booker, M. Keith. Historical dictionary of science fiction cinema. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Cline, John, and Robert G. Weiner, eds. From the arthouse to the grindhouse : highbrow and lowbrow transgression in cinema’s first century. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies

Weiner, Robert G., and John Cline, eds. Cinema inferno: celluloid explosions from the cultural margins. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Drew, William M. The last silent picture show: silent films on American screens in the 1930s. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Donovan, Barna William. Blood, guns, and testosterone: action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Classic cinema, art and crime, architecture

Giddins, Gary. Warning shadows: home alone with classic cinema. New York: Norton, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Bazley, Tom. Crimes of the art world. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

May, John. Buildings without architects. New York: Rizzoli, 2010. (Publisher’s description)