Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Bel Air, 1980 3
4. Woman in the Male Gaze 5
5. Melanie at the Birthday Party 7
6. Carnival 8
7. Carlotta 9
8. The Women’s Washroom 10
9. Madeleine, Dear Madeleine 11
10. To Catch a Thief with Grace 12
11. The Redwoods Bear Witness 13
12. Crows 14
13. Oak Room, NYC 15
14. Marion, Lost 16
15. Cube 17
16. The Remake 18
17. The Unnamed Wife 19
18. Devlin and Alicia 20
19. Psycho 21
20. Dial M 22
21. The Stage 23
22. Torture the Woman 24
23. Tippi and Suzanne 25
24. Annie and Melanie 26
25. Death in the Foyer 27
26. Innocence and Guilt 30
27. Shadows and Doubt 31
28. Roped-in 32
29. How Foolish 33
30. Boat Life 34
31. Frenzied 35
32. The Next Morning 36
33. Drive-in 37
34. Notoriety 38
35. The Uses of Suspense 39
36. Watching lifeboat 40
37. Hero 41
38. Charlie and Charlie 42
39. Judy, the Heartbroken 43
40. Psycho, Again 44
41. Spiral 45
42. Watching 46
43. Visitor 47
44. Dialing M 48
45. What Lydia Finds 49
46. Midge at Home 50
47. July 1952 51
48. Time and Death 54
49. Visitation 55
50. Watching vertigo 56
51. Drive-in, 1969 57
52. NbyNW 58
53. 1945/1965 59
54. The Eternal Child 60
55. Birds 62
56. On the Cusp 63
57. A Story of the London Fog 64
58. Life on That Boat 65
59. The View from Point Reyes 66
60. Torn Curtain 67
61. Bodega Bay, 2012 68
62. Old Mission, San Juan Bautista 69
63. The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much 70
64. Canada as Backdrop 71
65. Spellbinding 72
66. Santa Rosa, 1943 73
67. The Back Lot 74
68. Alma and Alfred 75
69. This Is All true 78
70. The Wolf in the Basement 79
71. Notes and Acknowledgments 81