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Christina is the Edgar®-Award winning author of [Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock] (Chicago Review Press). Phantom Lady is the first biography of one of the most influential women of Hollywood's golden era, the woman who, working behind the scenes, shaped the screen style of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense.

She is also the author of [Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break] (Wayne State UP, 2000) and [Magnolia] (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). She has published numerous scholarly essays on such topics as Carole Lombard, Alma Reville, Jodie Foster, Kathryn Bigelow, Goldie Hawn, and Susan Seidelman.

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The Women Who Knew: What We Know

Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen

Joan Harrison's story is incomplete without considering the importance of Alfred Hitchcock's wife — and chief collaborator — Alma Reville.

Joan joined Hitch and Alma in fall 1933 just as the director was making a crucial move to Gaumont-British Picture Corporation to develop The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). There, Joan received a crash course in sto

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