Focus on Hitchcock (Film Focus)
by Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan
Category: Performing Arts

In this volume LaValley presents the most comprehensive look at Hitchcock to date, examining the man and his films from a three-fold approach; Hitchcock on Hitchcock, the Hitchcock Controversy, and the Hitchcock Films. Five interviews with and articles by the director reveal his own conception of himself as a film-maker. The diverse reactions of the critics...are brought out through a whole section of articles on Hitchcock the director. Such masterpieces as Rear Window, Vertigo, Stranger on a Train, and Psycho are examined by a variety of critics with diverse approaches...providing the rare opportunity to see Hitchcock through the diversity of responses he evokes--Jacket.