Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays
- ISBN-10
- 183871426X
- ISBN-13
- 9781838714260
- Series
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-07-25
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Authors
- Richard Allen, Sam Ishii-Gonzales
Description
This collection of essays displays the range and breadth of Hitchcock scholarship and assesses the significance of his body of work as a bridge between the fin de siecle culture of the 19th century and the 20th century. It engages with Hitchcock's characteristic formal and aesthetic preoccupations.
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