Alfred Hitchcock - 9781138175006

Taylor & Francis

Alfred HitchcockAuthor(s): Nicholas Haeffner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138175006, 978-1138175006\nSynopsis\nNicholas 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 [tel], Vertigo [tel] and Psycho [tel] are now seen as classics within the suspense, melodrama and horror genres. \n\nIn contrast to previous works, which have attempted to get inside Hitchcock's mind and psychoanalyse his films, this book takes a more materialist stance. As Haeffner makes clear, Hitchcock was simultaneously a professional film maker working as part of a team in the film factories of Hollywood, a media celebrity, and an aspiring artist gifte.