Hitchcock Annual volume 25 is scheduled to be published in early 2022. Planned contents include examinations of the production conditions of Hitchcock’s films, close readings of several key films, and review essays on current biographical and critical work on Hitchcock.

Spellbound by Sound: What WeLearn from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notes on Sound Michael Slowik 1Beyond the Blonde: The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock Elisabeth Karlin 32Vertigo and Birth: Echoes of Loss Norman Buckley 56Young and Innocent:Becoming Joanie and Hitchy Christina Lane 73Naughts and Crosses: Marital and Cinematic Gamesmanship in AlfredHitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith Elizabeth Bullock 93The Possessive Passions of Hitchcock’s Villains Lesley Brill 121Awakening from Hitchcock’s Nightmares Thomas Leitch 144Out of the Fog David Sterritt 174Books, Candles, a Cassone, and a Length of Cord: “Too-CloseViewing” Hitchcock’s Rope Matthew Solomon 183How the Words Appear Neil Badmington 213Patricia White, Rebecca David Greven 222