Description: Unfolds the central importance of broken hospitality in the director's work.
Brief description: Ned Schantz is Associate Professor of English at McGill University and the author of Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature.
Review Quotes:
"This is an insightful, lucid, original, engaging, and persuasive contribution to the field of Hitchcock studies. Schantz makes a compelling case for thinking again about a number of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the specific light of hospitality (and violations of hospitality)." - Neil Badmington, author of Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope"