Description: A thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's career-long engagement with, and influence on film noir
Brief description: R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP's traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance.
Review Quotes: "In film noir evil lurks around every corner, especially in the 1950s and early 1960s features. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey have assembled a fine array of film scholars to offer their respect to a pioneer and fellow traveller of noir directors like Siodomak, Wilder and Dmytryk. Here Hitchcock has come out of the shadows of his role as 'Master of suspense.'"-- "John J. Michalczyk, author of "Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich""