Alfred Hitchcock

This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Marantz Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films-Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho-as well as some of his more uneven ones-Rope, The Wrong Man, Topaz-and makes connections between his evolution as a filmmaker and trends in the larger society.Drawing on a numb...