Murray Pomerance 
A Silence from Hitchcock [EPUB ebook] 

In
A Silence from Hitchcock, Murray Pomerance explores the resonating power of silence in the director’s work—its variation, its haunting temptation, and its technical power. Working from a meditative devotion to and an illuminating familiarity with the director’s work, Pomerance shines light upon six films, some of them (
Notorious,
The Lady Vanishes, and
The Trouble with Harry) frequently, even obsessively treated, and others (
Frenzy,
The Wrong Man, and
Topaz) less often discussed. In its strange relation to speech, memory, urbanity, guilt, mortality, and espionage, silence becomes, in these films, a dramatic protagonist in its own right. Written by a master interpreter of Hitchcock, this book offers new ways of seeing, experiencing, and thinking about the films of one of cinema’s greatest artists, as well as new ways of reflecting on our experience of cinema itself.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Is Given, What Is Not Given



1. A
Notorious Way to Live



2. How a Lady Vanishes



3. Our Frenzied Life



4. For the Grace of God: The Wrong Men



5. The Trouble and Harry



6. The Dirty Truth of
Topaz



Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. This is the fourth and final volume of his Hitchcock Quartet, which also includes
An Eye for Hitchcock, published by Rutgers University Press, and
A Dream of Hitchcock and
A Voyage with Hitchcock, both published by SUNY Press.