Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism

by Paula Marantz Cohen

Book Overview

This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Marantz Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films-- Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho --as well as some of his more uneven ones-- Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz --and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society. Drawing on a number of methodologies including feminism, psychoanalysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813151899
• ISBN13: 9780813151892
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up