Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema

Tom Ryall is Principal Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University

• Introduction - Hitchcock and criticism; British film culture in the interwar period; the British film industry in the interwar years; a British cinema? - the British entertainment film of the 1930s; Hitchcock and the British cinema; Hitchcock and genre - "the classic thriller sextet"; Hitchcock and classical cinema; conclusion - Hitchcock's British films.

"A perceptive study."--American Cinematographer