1. Space fright : The art director vanishes: Hitchcock and production design ; Pure doorknob cinema: doors, windows, and stairs ; Family plots on single sets: cinematic confinement ; Torn curtains in rear windows: uncanny homes and gothic plots
2. The tourist who knew too much : City symphonies and cameos in the crowd: the suspense of urban modernity ; Montage of tourist attractions: Hitchcock's creative geography ; Sightseeing terror: metatourism and national monuments ; The trouble with museums: mausoleums of the gaze
3. Selected works: Hitchcock's domestic architecture : Houses : Under glass ceilings: Bunting House (The lodger) ; The old dark house: house number 17 (Number seventeen) ; Living behind the screen: Verloc House & Bijou Cinema (Sabotage) ; Bad dream house: Newton House (Shadow of a doubt) ; A comfortable little place: Wendice apartment (Dial M for murder) ; Kitchen sink claustrophobia: Balestrero House (The wrong man) ; Schizoid architecture: Bates house & Motel (Psycho) ; Living in a cage: Brenner House (The birds) ; Behind the jungle gym: Hayworth House (The birds) ; Childhood memories: Edgar House (Marnie)
Country homes and mansions : Simple family life: Moat House (Easy virtue) ; Vitrivius Britannicus: Pengallan House (Jamaica Inn) ; Bluebeard's castle: Manderley (Rebecca) ; Design before the fact: Aysgarth House (Suspicion) ; Building above all suspicion: McLaidlaw House (Suspicion) ; Manhattan manners: Sutton House (Saboteur) ; Psycho-building: Green Manors (Spellbound) ; Nazi hominess: Sebastian House (Notorious) ; Unfathomable plans: Paradine House (The Paradine case) ; Bedroom of the picturesque: Hindley Hall (The Paradine case) ; Warm, cozy, and protective: Keane House (The Paradine case) ; Tropical classicism: Minyago Yugilla (Under Capricorn) ; The Oedipal bedroom: Anthony House (Strangers on a train)
Modern hide-outs and look outs : Long-take architecture: Brandon-Phillip Penthouse (Rope) ; Architecture of the gaze: Jeffries apartment & courtyard (Rear window) ; The machine in the garden: Vandamm House (North by northwest)
Appendix : Hitchcock's art directors.
