Secondary Source Suggestions

Spectators and observers:
Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (could apply to all our texts, not just film.)
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Visual+Pleasure+and+Narrative+Cinema

Lawrence Howe, "Through the Looking Glass: Reflexivity, Reciprocality, and Defenestration in Hitchcock's Rear Window"
http://0-muse.jhu.edu.library.stonehill.edu:80/journals/college_literature/v035/35.1howe.html

Dana Brand, The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American literature (book available at Stonehill Library)

Dana Brand, "Rear-View Mirror: Hitchcock, Poe, and the Flaneur in America" (photocopy outside my office) (also relevant to several other paper topics)

Crime and Criminals:
Howard Horwitz, "Maggie and the Sociological Paradigm," American Literary History, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 606-638
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/490138

Catherine Nickerson, "Murder as Social Criticism," American Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1997), pp. 744-757
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/490191

Keith Gandal, "Stephen Crane's "Maggie" and the Modern Soul," ELH, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 759-785
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.stonehill.edu/stable/2873412?&Search=yes&term=crime&term=crane&term=maggie&list=hide&

Machines and Technology:
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (especially last section)
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/haraway/haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto.html

Mark Seltzer, "Serial Killers (1)" (could also apply to crime essay)
http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.stonehill.edu:80/itx/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=ITOF&docId=A14506259&userGroupName=mlin_s_stonecol&version=1.0&searchType=PublicationSearchForm&source=gale

M. Christine Boyer, "Disenchantment of the City: An Improbable Dialogue Between Bodies, Machines, and Urban Form" (photocopy outside my office)

City and Village:
Toni Morrison, "City Limits, Village Values: Concepts of Neighborhood in Black Fiction"
(photocopy outside my office)

Doreen Massey, "A Place Called Home?" (in course pack; could apply to other essay topics too)

Apartments:
Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories (photocopies of selections from book outside my office)

Dana Brand, "Rear-View Mirror" (see above under Spectators)