Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism

by Paula Marantz Cohen

Book Overview

" This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paul Cohen considers a number of Hitchcock's most acclaimed films- Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho -as well as some of his less well-known 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: 0813108500
• ISBN13: 9780813108506
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher