Hitchcock had a method. It was a 'philosophy of visual and auratic form'-the dream of a pure cinema. With an unexpected gambit, Bruce Isaacs unearths this method through the rich pantheon of Hitchcockian imitators. A true discovery.
Bruce Isaacs is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Orientation of Future Cinema and Toward a New Film Aesthetic, and has published in leading journals on topics relating to the evolution of cinema as an art form.