Hitchcock's America

by Richard H. Millington and Jonathan Freedman

Book Overview

Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119061
• ISBN13: 9780195119060
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"