Description: A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.
Brief description: Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of many books, including, most recently, with Matthew Solomon, The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis (also published by SUNY Press) and Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience.
Review Quotes:
"Leave it to Murray Pomerance, one of the most singular voices in film studies, to reintroduce us to Hitchcock's work in all its infinite mystery, retrieving it from the frameworks of theory and interpretation that have too often reduced it to convenient clichés. This searching, provocative, and revelatory text is a lesson in necessarily idiosyncratic attention. No one quite savors luminous and sonorous details like the author of this book-except for Hitchcock himself, whose sensibility finds itself mirrored and refracted in Pomerance's elegant prose." - Rick Warner, author of The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema