Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema's greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s - L'avventura, La Notte, L'eclisse - are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demo[...]

With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, developed in his youth and early filmmaking in the UK, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.[...]

A thrilling tale of anxiety and moral extremity, Marnie (1964) cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a master of suspense and the visual form. Murray Pomerance here ranges through the many tortuous and thrilling passages of Marnie, weaving critical discussion together with production history to [...]