Los asesinatos de Hitchcock

Synopsis of Los asesinatos de Hitchcock

«Los asesinatos de Hitchcock» is Peter Conrad's essay on Alfred Hitchcock's cinema, published by Turner in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).

Peter Conrad surveys Alfred Hitchcock's filmography to unravel the keys to his cinema: the false culprit, the camera as witness to appearances, and terror as a means of revealing reality. The book argues that the British director's greatness lay in showing the monsters hidden beneath the surface of civilization.

The essay belongs to the Noema collection, number 24, and was published on 15 May 2003. The translation is by Juan Cárdenas.

For cinephiles and readers interested in the analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's work.