Hitchcock, Piece by Piece

In a career that spanned 60 years, Alfred Hitchcock made more than 50 feature-lenght films and hosted his own television series, transforming the thriller genre in the twentieth century. The author puts this incredible canon into perspective, examining the master's life thematically: his archetypal anti-heroes; his complicated female characters; his charming villains; and "the Hitchcock touch"- those elements of film that are, quite simply, Hitchcockian.-- Back cover