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RR 2016/133 The Cambridge Companion to Alfred Hitchcock Edited by Jonathan Freedman Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2015 xxviii + 259 pp. ISBN 978 1 107 10757 1 (hbck); ISBN 978 1 107 51488 1 (pbck); ISBN 978 1 316 31103 5 (e-book); £50 $90 (hbck); £17.99 $29.99 (pbck); $24 (e-book) Cambridge Companions to American Studies
Keywords Alfred Hitchcock, Film, Filmmaking
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2016-0037
This book is a collection of critical essays that examine Alfred Hitchcock as an American filmmaker. Having long thought of Hitchcock as a quintessentially British filmmaker, I find myself frilly disabused of this spurious notion. As it turns out, Hitchcock aimed himself on a trajectory towards a target of being hired into and working within the American...