A companion to Alfred Hitchcock
By: edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague
Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9781405185387
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influences, and collaborators, on the other. A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock authoritatively maps the body of work generated in response to the director and his films, compiling essays from some of the world's most noted scholars in the emerging field of Hitchcock studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.