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About the Author
Michael Wood is the author of many works, including The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction, and America in the Movies, a survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.
Reviews
"...An elegant introduction to the director for the novice and a wealth of knowledge for cineastes, demonstrating that when it comes to Alfred Hitchcock, you can never know too much." -Wall Street Journal "An intelligent introduction to the life and works of a very complicated director." -Booklist "It's a rare pleasure for a book to carry you from cover to cover with wit, verve, and profit. That's what happens with this new overview by Michael Wood." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Fine, brief biography of Hitchcock...The value of this book lies in its insights into Hitchcock's art." -The Washington Post "With the confidence that he is among well-read friends, the author-a fellow Englishman transposed to America, and a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton-wanders at a lively pace through intriguing and subtle observations about this great artist." -The New York Times Book Review "This slim contribution to the Hitchcock library, by a professor of literature at Princeton, surprises with the splintered connections it makes between individual films and other points of culture and politics." -The Economist "Elegant, elliptical new book." -The Economist's Intelligent Life Magazine "As a literary critic, Wood probes more deeply into films that for him are 'visual texts.'" -The Guardian "Wood's achievement in this startling, insight-laden book is to point up how strange Hitchcock's pictures remain, how so unlike conventional movies even his most conventional movies are. After an hour with Wood, you go back to Hitchcock more unsettled than ever." -The Spectator (UK) "A highly readable, entertaining, and thought-provoking overview of Hitchcock's oeuvre." -New York Journal of Books "Sharp-witted contribution to the Amazon/New Harvest Icons series" -New Statesman (UK)
Book Information
ISBN 9781477801345
Author Michael Wood
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Amazon Publishing
Publisher Amazon Publishing
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