Alfred Hitchcock's America

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.

Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745653030
• ISBN13: 9780745653037
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"