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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. Bringing together leading international film scholars, critics and historians, the volume explores the reception histories of key Hitchcock titles. 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), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963). Contributors examine how changing critical perspectives have shaped our understanding of Hitchcock''s films and legacy. The book also sheds light on Hitchcock''s lesser-known television work of the 1950s and 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. Contributors: Richard Allen, Neil Badmington, Charles Barr, Tifenn Brisset, Elizabeth Bullock, Francesca Cantore, James Chapman, Hye Seung Chung, Paula Marantz Cohen, Bryony Dixon, Jaimey Fisher, David Greven, Sidney Gottlieb, Joel Gunz, Jason Isralowitz, Robert Kapsis, Sergei Kapterev, Dona M. Kercher, Thomas Leitch, Christina Lane, Ana Rosas Mantecon, Henry K. Miller, Andrea Minuz, Daisuke Miya, Tania Modleski, J.E. Smyth, Thomas Schatz, Janet Staiger, Jack Sullivan, Sun Yi, Patricia White.
