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1、ISBN 90-5356-772-0 9 789053 567722Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University PressWWW.AUP.NLAmong the abundant Alfred Hitchcock litera-ture, Hitchcock’s Motifs has found a fresh angle.Starting from recurring objec

2、ts, settings, char-acter-types and events, Michael Walker trackssome forty motifs, themes and clusters acrossthe whole of Hitchcock’s work, including notonly all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episod

3、es from his TV series. Con-nections and deeper inflections that Hitchcockfans may have long sensed or suspected cannow be seen for what they are: an intricatelyspun web of cross-references which gives thisunique artist’s

4、 work the depth, consistencyand resonance that justifies Hitchcock’splace as probably the best known film director ever. The book can be used as a mini-ency-clopaedia of Hitchcock’s motifs, but the in-dividual entries gi

5、ve full attention also tothe wider social contexts, hidden sourcesand sometimes unconscious meaningspresent in the work and solidly linking it toits time and place.Michael Walker is an independent writer.On the editorial

6、 board of Movie magazine,he has contributed to The Movie Book ofFilm Noir (1992) and The Movie Book of theWestern (1996).HITCHCOCK’S MOTIFS MICHAEL WALKERHitchcock’s MotifsHitchcock’s MotifsIN TRANSITION FILM CULTURE