136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock's prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resulted in 53 films of which Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960)... Read more
1. Background 2. Hitchcock's heritage: class, culture and cosmopolitanism 3. Authorship and reputation 4. Fascinating design: image, nothingness, sound and silence 5. Realism and The Wrong Man 6. Hitchcock and women 7. Delirium of interpretation? The uses and abuses of psychoanalysis 8. Audiences and identification 9. Hitchcock's legacy: Psycho and after
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Nicholas Haeffner
