Strangers on a Train

A Queer Film Classic on Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith ( The Talented Mr. Ripley): two men meet on a train and enter into a murder plot that binds them to one another, with fatal consequences. The book includes a look at the making of the film and the critical controversies over Hitchcock's representations of male homosexuality. Jonathan Goldbergis a professor at Emory University, where he directs the Studies in Sexualities program. He is the author of many books and editor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's posthumous 2012 book The Weather in Proust.