“…Man who knew…”

“…Man who knew infinity…”

“…Man who knew Coolidge…”

“…Man who knew Kennedy…”

“…Man who knew Hammett…”

“…Man who knew too much…”

“…Last man who knew everything…”

Table of Contents: “…The last man who knew everything, or did he? Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) and his world / Paula Findlen -- Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) -- Kircher's Rome / Eugenio Lo Sardo -- Reveries in time of plague : Athanasius Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656 / Martha Baldwin -- Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus / Harald Siebert -- Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher / Angela Mayer-Deutsch -- Copts and scholars : Athanasius Kircher in Peirsec's republic of letters / Peter N. …”

Table of Contents: “…Portentous arrangements: Bernard Herrmann and The Man Who Knew Too Much /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Reorientation of Roger Bacon: Muslims, Mongols, and the Man Who Knew Everything --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The man who knew Belle Starr -- Police dreams -- What feels like the world -- Design -- The eyes of love -- The fireman's wife -- Consolation -- Letter to the lady of the house -- Aren't you happy for me? …”

Table of Contents: “…Chameleon -- Moses and me -- The man who knew too much -- Loyalties -- Ben -- The Jewish Amy Tan -- The Senator and his war -- Ghost in the machine -- Losing my religion -- Village people -- Giving up the ghost -- Haunted -- Learning to vanish -- Torches lit.…”

Table of Contents: “…Blackmail -- The man who knew too much -- The 39 steps -- Secret agent -- The lady vanishes -- Mr. & Mrs. …”

Table of Contents: “…, Mary, Elstree calling, The skin game -- Rich and strange, Number 17, Waltzes from Vienna -- The man who knew too much, The 39 steps, Secret agent, Sabotage -- Young and innocent, The lady vanishes, Jamaica Inn -- Rebecca, Foreign correspondent, Mr. and Mrs. …”

Table of Contents: “…Overture -- The music starts -- Waltzes from Vienna : Hitchcock's forgotten operetta -- The man who knew too much : storm clouds over Royal Albert Hall -- Musical minimalism : British Hitchcock -- Rebecca : music to raise the dead -- Waltzing into danger -- Sounds of war -- Spellbound : theremins and phallic frescoes -- Notorious : bright sambas, dark secrets -- The paradine case : the unhappy finale of Hitchcock and Selznick -- Hitchcock in a different key : the post-Selznick experiments -- The band played on : a Tiomkin trio -- Rear window : the redemptive power of popular music -- Lethal laughter : Hitchcock's fifties comedies -- The man who knew too much : Doris Day versus the London Symphony -- The wrong man : music from the dark side of the moon -- Sing along with Hitch : music for television -- Vertigo : the music of longing and loss -- North by northwest : fandango on the rocks -- Psycho : the music of terror -- The birds : aviary apocalypse -- The music ends : Hitchcock fires Herrmann -- Topaz : the music is back -- Frenzy : out with Mancini, hold the Bach -- Family plot : Hitchcock's exuberant finale -- Finale : Hitchcock as maestro.…”
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Table of Contents: “…--Sinclair Lewis: Presentation address. The man who knew Coolidge. A letter from the Queen. Babbitt (excerpt). …”

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Hitchcock's Magic; or, How I Starred 1in Saboteur; Ps/zycho; Frame Tale: Rear Window and the Promise of Vision; SpectRebecca; Stories of 'O': North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much; The Animals Who Knew Too Much: The Zoopoetics of The Birds; Postscript: Into the Mystery; Appendix: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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