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Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, New)
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Alfred Hitchcock (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers
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'Will there ever be an end to the supply of books about Alfred
Hitchcock?', pleaded the Times Literary Supplement in 2008. It is a
fair question for, as Michael Walker pointed out in Hitchcock's
Motifs, more has been written about Hitchcock (1899-1980) than any
other film director. Indeed, Jane E. Sloan's 1993 Hitchcock
bibliography revealed that well over seventy-five scholarly books
and nearly 1,000 articles had been published by 1990; and those
figures have, of course, continued inexorably to rise. So, while
the prospective viewer of Vertigo or Rear Window is likely to feel
a compelling need for some preparation before consuming the film
itself, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of Hitchcock
criticism makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the
tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new
Routledge title, compiled by Neil Badmington, is so urgently
needed. In four volumes, the collection meets the need for an
authoritative reference work to allow researchers and students to
make sense of the vast Hitchcock literature and the continuing
explosion in research output. Users will now be able easily and
rapidly to locate the best and most influential critical
scholarship, work that is otherwise often inaccessible or scattered
throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. With
material gathered into one easy-to-use set, researchers and
students can now spend more of their time with the key journal
articles, book chapters, and other pieces, rather than on
time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches. The
collection is supplemented with a comprehensive introduction newly
written by the editor, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context. It is also fully indexed and
includes an expertly compiled 'Thematic Guide' to enable users
readily to discover and follow thematic pathways through the
assembled works. Alfred Hitchcock is an essential reference work
and is destined to be valued as a vital research resource.
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