Publisher's Synopsis
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 iek, 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.
