Introduction: intimate violence -- Queer Hitchcock: Psycho and North by Northwest -- "You're a strange girl, Charlie": sexual hegemony in Shadow of a doubt -- Mirrors without images: Spellbound -- Making a meal of manhood: Rope, orality, and queer anguish -- The fairgrounds of desire: paranoia and masochism in Strangers on a train -- The death-mother in Psycho: Hitchcock, femininity, and queer desire -- Marnie's queer resilience -- Epilogue: Melanie's birds: deconstructing the heroine.
