Expanded Hitchcock: Rebecca

Tania Modleski is Florence R. Scott Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses in film, literature and popular culture. She is the author of, among other works, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women and The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory. The latter has recently appeared in a third edition, including an interview with film scholar David Greven that addresses the potential for bringing together queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock. She is at work on a book titled The Spoils of Feminism, which deals with male critics’ and male directors’ appropriations of feminist theory and female film genres.

Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center and Presidential Chair in Media Studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of eleven books, such as After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship (with Kennan Ferguson, 2016), Beyond Globalization: Making New Worlds in Media, Art, and Social Practices (with A. Aneesh and Lane Hall, 2011), Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History (2002), and Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany (1989). Most recently, she has completed a volume entitled The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (with Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelaca, and E. Ann Kaplan) which was released in 2017.