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Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940's, 50's, and 60's. The authors of this anthology show how famous films such as Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window, along with more obscure ones such as Rope, The Wrong Man, and Family Plot, register the ideologies and insurgencies, the normative assumptions and the cultural alternatives, that shaped these tumultuous decades. They argue that, just as these films occupy

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Hitchcock, Alfred, --- Chitskok, Alphrent, --- Hīchakāk, Al-Frad , --- Hitchcock, Alfred Joseph, --- Hsi-chʻü-kʻao-kʻo, --- היצ'קוק, אלפרד, --- هيچکاک، الفرد، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- In motion pictures. --- National characteristics, American, in motion pictures --- CDL --- 791.471 HITCHCOCK --- Hitchcok, Alfred