Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies, the normative assumptions and the cultural alternatives, that shaped these...
Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the c...
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James is intended to provide a critical introduction to James' work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the past fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture that was James' milieu, as a writer he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James is intended to provide a critical introduction to James' work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the past...
This volume discusses Henry James and the tradition of late 19th century British aestheticism and investigates the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fed into Anglo-American modernism.
This volume discusses Henry James and the tradition of late 19th century British aestheticism and investigates the way Pre-Raphaelite concerns fed int...
