Hitchcock

The Murderous Gaze

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by William Rothman

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Keywords

Alfred Hitchcock, murder

Publishing date

1982

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Collection

Harvard Film Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 384 pages
7 ¼ x 10 inches (18.5 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-674-40410-6
978-0-674-40410-6

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About the Author:
Willam Rothman is the Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies atHarvard University where he also recieved his doctorate in philosophy.

Press Reviews:
William Rothman's Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze is the best treatment of Hitchcock to date. It addresses what is unique about Hitchcock's films...[in order] to establish the centrality of Hitchcock to the art of making films...[The book] consists of detailed readings of five films The Lodger, Murder!, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, and Psycho, illustrated with more than six hundred frame enlargements...The book rewards the reader by providing pleasures that convey, to a remarkable degree, the exhilarating experience of viewing a Hitchcock film...Most readers, I am convinced, will have the sense that Rothman has really captured Hitchcock, and that he has shown Hitchcock to be more masterly, and more profound, than they ever imagined...Rothman's book, clear, passionate, and witty, neither reduces the films it studies to a set of codes nor is itself written in code.
--Paul Thomas (American Film)

The whole book in fact is richly suggestive--perhaps more fully responsive to Hitchcock's complexities than any previous account--and it deserves to be widely discussed.
--Douglas Pye (Journal of American Studies)

This is academic film criticism of the very highest order; the readings are inclusive and illuminating, and the writing is at once polished and congenial. (Worcester Sunday Telegram)

[An] eloquent, intelligent work.
--Philip French (Times Literary Supplement)

Rothman's approach is engagingly far from dictatorial; his readings, crammed with useful questions rather than inflexible assertions, should stimulate...Rothman's is the best desert-island reading the Hitchcock fan could wish for.
--Philip Strick (Films and Filming)

Rothman's study is like no other I have read of Hitchcock, or any other director for that matter...The book represents an immense labor of love and devotion.
--Forsyth Hardy (Literary Review)

Perceptive, graceful, illuminating...As a model of how to view a movie it has few equals. (Choice)

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