Alfred Hitchcock

A comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films, which navigates the reader through the wealth of critical commentaries.

Locates the director's remarkable body of work within traditions of highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture, and their appeal to different types of audience

The author explores Hitchcock's mastery of the technical means used to build and maintain suspense.

Examines a style which always featured, murder, espionage, deception, mistaken identities, chase sequences, wry touches of humor and occasional intrusion of the macabre in various combinations

Instead, he examines the force that has been called Hitchcock's genius in the light of his social & economic situation, providing a novel reading of his cinematic work.