Alfred Hitchcock´s America

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema. Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and a detailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock´s films and production techniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s is revealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock´s work. Alfred Hitchcock´s America is full of stunning details that bring new light to Hitchcock´s method and works. The American "spirit of place," is seen here in light of the titanic American personality, American values in a consumer age, social class and American social form, and the characteristic American marriage. The book´s analysis ranges across a wide array of films from Rebecca to Family Plot , and examines in depth the location sequences, characterological types, and complex social expectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrived there.