Hitchcock's appetites: the corpulent plots of desire and dread

"The first book-length study of director Alfred Hitchcock to consider how his struggles with weight and size found their expression in his cinema and in his creative life."--

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Hitchcock's Hollywood Diet -- Chapter 2: Appetite, Temporality, and Consequence in Rear Window: Another Impulse of Voyeurism -- Chapter 3: The Hitchcock Cameo: Fat Self-Fashioning and Cinematic Belonging -- Chapter 4: The Ins and Outs of Hitchcockian Consumption: Some Notes on His Cinematic Uses of Food and Drink -- Chapter 5: Children and the Challenge of Fat Masculinity -- Chapter 6: Hitchcock and the Queer Lens of Fatness -- Epilogue.