CFP: Hitchcock's Children

From: "Olson, Debbie-OSU Stillwater" <[email protected]>

CFP: Hitchcock’s Children

Although children and youth appear in a great number of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, they are rarely the focus of critical attention. This collection seeks to remedy that oversight and aims to add to the rich and varied tradition of Hitchcock scholarship. Many of the children and youth that appear in Hitchcock films are background or minor characters, yet they often hold special importance. From  The Young and Innocent (1931), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Trouble With Harry(1955), and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) to The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness (and so much more) within Hitchcock’s complex cinematic texts. The child character in Hitchcock’s films is significant symbolically, theoretically, and/or philosophically and offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence.

Contributor’s are invited to submit critical, philosophical, and/or theoretical examinations of the children/youth characters in the full range of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, from his early silent’s to his later films. For the collection’s focus, children are defined as birth to age 12, while youth are defined as teenagers age 13 to 17.

Please send an abstract (250-500 words), current contact information, and brief biography (or CV) as attachments in Word (or compatible) by May 30, 2012, to Debbie Olson, [email protected]. Completed papers are due August 31st, 2012.


Debbie Olson
www.redfeatherjournal.org
Oklahoma State University
University of Texas at Arlington
Departments of English
"Well behaved Women rarely make History"