Hitchcock, Second Edition: The Murderous Gaze

Review

“…Rothman’s extremely detailed … style makes for a captivating read, and it proves that when writing is triggered by an author’s passion readers will more easily understand content.” ― Film Matters

Praise for Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze

“Perceptive, graceful, illuminating … As a model of how to view a movie it has few equals.” ― CHOICE

[An] eloquent, intelligent work.” ― Philip French, Times Literary Supplement

“This is academic film criticism of the very highest order; the readings are inclusive and illuminating, and the writing is at once polished and congenial.” ― Worcester Sunday Telegram

“William Rothman’s Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze is the best treatment of Hitchcock to date. It addresses what is unique about Hitchcock’s films … [in order] to establish the centrality of Hitchcock to the art of making films … The book rewards the reader by providing pleasures that convey, to a remarkable degree, the exhilarating experience of viewing a Hitchcock film … Most readers, I am convinced, will have the sense that Rothman has really captured Hitchcock, and that he has shown Hitchcock to be more masterly, and more profound, than they ever imagined … Rothman’s book, clear, passionate, and witty, neither reduces the films it studies to a set of codes nor is itself written in code.” ― Paul Thomas, American Film

“The whole book in fact is richly suggestive―perhaps more fully responsive to Hitchcock’s complexities than any previous account―and it deserves to be widely discussed.” ― Douglas Pye, Journal of American Studies

“Rothman’s approach is engagingly far from dictatorial; his readings, crammed with useful questions rather than inflexible assertions, should stimulate … Rothman’s is the best desert-island reading the Hitchcock fan could wish for.” ― Philip Strick, Films and Filming

“Rothman’s study is like no other I have read of Hitchcock, or any other director for that matter … The book represents an immense labor of love and devotion.” ― Forsyth Hardy, Literary Review

Product Description

An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most controversial--film.



About the Author

William Rothman is Professor of Motion Pictures and Director of the Graduate Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Miami. His books include Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch, both also published by SUNY Press.