A companion to Alfred Hitchcock /

• Corporate Author: Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leitch, Thomas M., Poague, Leland A., 1948-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
• Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980 > Criticism and interpretation.; Hitchcock, Alfred, > 1899-1980.; PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"Alfred Hitchcock remains the quintessential cinematic auteur - the director as hero. Fifty years of debate over his status as an obsessive and dictatorial artist has raised increasingly pressing questions about the relation between individual authorship, on the one hand, and contexts, influenc...