Re-viewing Hitchcock - New Critical Perspectives

Re-viewing Hitchcock 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 1927''s silent The Lodger to his penultimate film, the controversial Frenzy of 1972. 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 Rebecca (1940), Rear Window (1954), and North by Northwest (1959), as well as those that have received shifting degrees of critical and scholarly praise, such as Sabotage (1936), Rope (1949), Strangers on a Train (1951), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (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. The contributors also re-evaluate Hitchcock''s television work during the 1950s and 1960s, analyzing this relatively understudied aspect of his career and contextualizing it in relation to his filmmaking. Finally, the volume considers the critical reception of Hitchcock''s work beyond the US and UK; in Spanish speaking regions, Asia, (especially South Korea, Japan, and Chinese language territories), France, and Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E Kapsis
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.02.2026
• EAN: 9781839026195
• ISBN: 978-1-83902-619-5
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 192 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Hollywood, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism