Product Description

Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's "Motifs" has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes from his TV series. Connections and deeper inflections that Hitchcock fans may have long sensed or suspected can now be seen for what they are: an intricately spun web of cross-references which gives this unique artist's work the depth, consistency and resonance that justifies Hitchcock's place as probably the best known film director ever. The book can be used as a mini-encyclopaedia of Hitchcock's motifs, but the individual entries also give full attention to the wider social contexts, hidden sources and the sometimes unconscious meanings present in the work and solidly linking it to its time and place. Grace Kelly and Cary Grant act in Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #784433 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author
Michael Walker is an independent writer and member of the editorial board of Movie magazine.