Re viewing Hitchcock

<p><i>Re-viewing Hitchcock </i>approaches Alfred Hitchcock''s prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur''s work from 1926''s silent <i>The Lodger</i> to his penultimate film, the controversial <i>Frenzy </i>of 1972.<br><br>Each of the chapters, written by eminent international film scholars, critics and historians, offers a detailed analyses of the historical reception of key Hitchcock films. These include films that have enjoyed consistent critical success, such as <i>Rebecca </i>(1940), <i>Rear Window</i> (1954), and <i>North by Northwest </i>(1959), as well as those that have received shifting degrees of critical and scholarly praise, such as <i>Sabotage </i>(1936), <i>Rope </i>(1949), <i>Strangers on a Train</i> (1951), <i>Vertigo </i>(1958), <i>Psycho </i>(1960), and <i>The Birds</i> (1963). The contributors assess the significance of these changing critical perspectives and the extent to which they influence the meaning and significance of Hitchcock''s films and filmmaking. <br><br>The book also sheds light on Hitchcock’s lesser-known television work of the 1950s and the 60s, reassessing its relationship to his film career. In addition, it expands the focus beyond Anglo-American contexts to consider how Hitchcock’s films have been received and interpreted in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.</p>