Pre-Owned Alfred Hitchcock s America (Hardcover) 9780745653020

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock s films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s 1950s and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock s work. Alfred Hitchcock s America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock s method and works. The American spirit of place is seen here in light of the titanic American personality American values in a consumer age social class and American social form and the characteristic American marriage. The book s analysis ranges across a wide array of films from Rebecca to Family Plot and examines in depth the location sequences characterological types and complex social expectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrived there.