Will there ever be an end to the supply of books about Alfred Hitchcock?, pleaded the Times Literary Supplement in 2008. It is a fair question for, as Michael Walker pointed out in Hitchcock s Motifs, more has been written about Hitchcock (1899 1980) than any other film director. Indeed, Jane E. Sloan s 1993 Hitchcock bibliography revealed that well over seventy-five scholarly books and nearly 1,000 articles had been published by 1990; and those figures have, of course, continued inexorably to rise.

So, while the prospective viewer of Vertigo or Rear...

This new 4 volume collection includes the best and most influential critical scholarship on Clint Eastwood. The articles gathered here embrace issues such as gender, masculine lack and anxiety and interrogate Eastwood as a symptomatic object of American identity. Other themes include mortality, female subjectivity, post-colonialism, and existential despair brought on by war and ecological disaster.