With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of classinequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene aperspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in Americancinema.
Murray Pomerance works from a basis in cultural analysis and adetailed knowledge of Alfred Hitchcock's films and productiontechniques to explore how America of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s isrevealed and critically commented upon in Hitchcock's work.Alfred Hitchcock's America is full of stunning details thatbring new light to Hitchcock's method and works. The American"spirit of place," is seen here in light of the titanic Americanpersonality, American values in a consumer age, social class andAmerican social form, and the characteristic American marriage. Thebook's analysis ranges across a wide array of films fromRebecca to Family Plot, and examines in depth thelocation sequences, characterological types, and complex socialexpectations that riddled American society while Hitchcock thrivedthere.