-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

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcocks major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcocks prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resulted in 53 films of which Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) are now seen as classics within the suspense, melodrama and horror genres. In contrast to previous works, which have attempted to get inside Hitchcocks mind and psychoanalyse his films, this book takes a more materialist stance. As Haeffner makes clear, Hitchcock was simultaneously a professional film maker working as part of a team in the film factories of Hollywood, a media celebrity, and an aspiring artist gifted with considerable entrepreneurial flair for marketing himself and his films. The book makes a case for locating the directors remarkable body of work within traditions of highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture, appealing to different audience constituencies in a calculated strategy. The book upholds the case for taking Hitchcocks work seriously and challenges his popular reputation as a misogynist through detailed analyses of his most controversial films. Contents:

-Background
-Hitchcocks heritage
-Authorship and reputation
-Design: image, sound and silence
-Realism and The Wrong Man
-Hitchcock and women
-The uses and abuses of psychoanalysis
-Audiences and identification
-Hitchcocks legacy: Psycho and after

Nicholas Haeffner is currently Senior Lecturer in Communications, London Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor at Boston University.


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