Hitchcock Annual volume 26 will include essays on Rebecca, and an expanded section of review essays on recent books on such topics as Vertigo and the history of British cinema.

Hitchcock Annual, volume 24, includes essays on unresolved ambiguities in Suspicion and trauma and recovery in Under Capricorn. A special feature of the volume is an expanded section reviewing current critical work on Hitchcock, including detailed review essays on recent books on such key topics as Hitchcock's comedy, collaborators, approach to acting, notion of pure cinema, and negotiations with censors through the years.

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured, theorized, circulated, and viewed is examined. This 2004 volume offers a fresh look at the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, and particularly its representation of the city and various types of women; its cinematic influences and affinities; the complexity of its political dimensions, including the film's vision of political struggle and the political uses to which the film was put; and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as a well illustrated, up to date, and accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured, theorized, circulated, and viewed is examined. This 2004 volume offers a fresh look at the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, and particularly its representation of the city and various types of women; its cinematic influences and affinities; the complexity of its political dimensions, including the film's vision of political struggle and the political uses to which the film was put; and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as a well illustrated, up to date, and accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.

Hitchcock Annual, volume 23, includes essays on Hitchcock's use of silence in his films, civilians at war in his World War II trilogy, melodrama and the Christian imagination in Under Capricorn, filming thought and feeling in Strangers on a Train, and remaking the romance in The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Hitchcock Annual volume 25 includes essays on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Young and Innocent, the dynamic heroines of Hitchcock, Hitchcock's nightmares, Vertigo and Jonathan Glazer's Birth, Hitchcock's villains, and sound in Hitchcock's films. A special feature of the volume is an expanded section of detailed review essays on recent books on such key topics as Rope, The Lodger, Rebecca, and Slavoj Zizek's writings on Hitchcock.

For more than fifteen years the "Hitchcock Annual" has offered groundbreaking and authoritative scholarship on Hitchcock, becoming the journal of record for Hitchcock studies. Wallflower Press is proud to announce a new partnership with this prestigious publication, resulting in "The Hitchcock Annual Anthology," which features contributions from such leading critics as Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Bill Krohn, Mark Rappaport, Michael Walker, Robin Wood, and Slavoj Zizek. The anthology includes essays on Hitchcock's entire oeuvre, from his early silents to his late American masterpieces, and overviews of Hitchcock criticism, as well as interviews with and discussions between Hitchcock's collaborators.

Hitchcock Annual: Volume 20 contains essays on Hitchcock and C. A. Lejeune; Easy Virtue in context; the West coast setting of and cultural anxiety in The Birds; Hitchcockian aspects of Balachander's The Doll; and Kent Jones's Hitchcock/Truffaut. It also contains an index of the Hitchcock Annual, volumes 1-20.

"Hitchcock Annual: Volume 18" features essays on Hitchcock and Italian art cinema; the cinematic and cultural context of Hitchcock's silent film, "Champagne" (1928); "Marnie" (1964) and queer theory; the use of newspapers in Hitchcock's films; and Hitchcock's wartime documentary work.

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects of his art that have been eclipsed by a narrow focus on his films. By positioning Welles's work during a critical period of his activity (the mid-1930s through the 1950s) in its larger cultural, political, aesthetic, and industrial contexts, the contributors to this volume examine how he participated in and helped to shape modern media. This exploration of Welles in his totality illuminates and expands our perception of his contributions that continue to resonate today.

This collection showcases the best essays from the six issues of film studies' leading platform for Hitchcock scholarship. Contributions include works by Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Mark Rappaport, Michael Walker, and Slavoj Žižek, among others, covering Hitchcock's entire oeuvre, from his early silent films to his late American masterpieces. It contains an overview of Hitchcock criticism, a screenwriter's forum on "Working with Hitch," and early essays on film by both Hitchcock and Alma Reville.

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects of his art that have been eclipsed by a narrow focus on his films. By positioning Welles's work during a critical period of his activity (the mid-1930s through the 1950s) in its larger cultural, political, aesthetic, and industrial contexts, the contributors to this volume examine how he participated in and helped to shape modern media. This exploration of Welles in his totality illuminates and expands our perception of his contributions that continue to resonate today.

Hitchcock Annual, volume 22, contains essays on Muybridge and Vertigo; undoing propaganda in Yeats, Hitchcock, and de Man; three newspaper articles Hitchcock wrote after visiting Hollywood in 1938; interviews with screenwriters Arthur Laurents and Howard Fast; and a review article on several new books on Hitchcock.

"Hitchcock Annual: Volume 19" is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. It will include articles on Hitchcock's silent film work and an analysis of Hitchock's "Rear Window" (1954).

"Hitchcock Annual: Volume 17" contains essays on two of Hitchcock's most well-known films, "Notorious" and "The Birds," and two of his lesser-known works, "Juno and the Paycock" and "Stage Fright." It also includes a detailed study of the unused score for "Frenzy" by Henry Mancini, an examination of Hitchcock's presence in contemporary art installations and experimental films, and a review essay on two recent books on Hitchcock.

This new issue of the "Hitchcock Annual" contains studies of Hitchcock and theater, Hitchcock's atheology, and the filmmaker's influence on the stalker genre. It features analyses of "Rear Window" and Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of "Psycho," a dossier of "To Catch a Thief," and an early essay by Hitchcock himself. "The Hitchcock Annual" will be published every spring, beginning in 2011 with Volume 17.

Includes Hitchcockian narrative; Hitchcock and India dossier; essays on Alma Reville, "Downhill," "The Trouble with Harry," and "Marnie," and reviews.

Includes Hitchcock and Lang; Hitchcock biography; essays on "The Phoenix Tapes," "Under Capricorn," "Rear Window," and "Vertigo"; and reviews.

Includes Screenwriter's Forum; "Psycho" dossier; essays on "The Lodger," "Rear Window," and "To Catch a Thief"; Hitchcock and French Film Criticism; and reviews.

Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Bringing the same exuberance and originality to his writing as he did to his films, he ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to techniques of filmmaking and ideas about cinema in general. Wry, thoughtful, witty, and humorous as well as brilliantly informative this selection reveals another side of the most renowned filmmaker of our time. Sidney Gottlieb not only presents some of Hitchcock's most important pieces, but also places them in their historical context and in the context of Hitchcock's development as a director. He reflects on Hitchcock's complicated, often troubled, and continually evolving relationships with women, both on and off the set. Some of the topics Hitchcock touches upon are the differences between English and American attitudes toward murder, the importance of comedy in film, and the uses and techniques of lighting. There are also many anecdotes of life among the stars, reminiscences from the sets of some of the most successful and innovative films of this century, and incisive insights into working method, film history, and the role of film in society. Unlike some of the complex critical commentary that has emerged on his life and work, the director's own writing style is refreshingly straightforward and accessible. Throughout the collection, Hitchcock reveals a delight and curiosity about his medium that bring all his subjects to life.

Film -- Biography

Even twenty years after his death and nearly fifty or more years after his creative peak, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is still arguably the most instantly recognizable film director in name, appearance, vision, and voice. Long ago, through a combination of timing, talent, genius, energy, and publicity, he made the key transition from proper noun to adjective that confirms celebrity and true stature. It is a rare filmwatcher indeed who cannot define "Hitchcockian."

As the director of such films as "Psycho," "North by Northwest," "Spellbound," "Vertigo," "Rear Window," "To Catch a Thief," "Notorious," and "The Birds," Hitchcock has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy. He was one of the most interviewed directors in the history of film. Among the hundreds of interviews he gave, those in this collection catch Hitchcock at key moments of transition in his long career--as he moved from silent to sound pictures, from England to America, from thrillers to complex romances, and from director to producer-director.

These conversations dramatize his shifting attitudes on a variety of cinematic matters that engaged and challenged him, including the role of stars in a movie, the importance of story, the use of sound and color, his relationship to the medium of television, and the attractions and perils of realism.

His engaging wit and intelligence are on display here, as are his sophistication, serious contemplation, and playful manipulation of the interviewer.

Sidney Gottlieb, a professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, is the editor of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews."

Includes Hitchcock and wartime Britain; Hitchcock and carnival; Hitchcock and fascism; essays on "Murder ," "Downhill," and "Topaz"; and reviews.