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When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it became known as a book on film that came to be considered a necessary text in the Hitchcock bibliography. This work includes eighteen essays and a chapter on Marnie titled Does Mark Cure Marnie? Or, 'You Freud, Me Hitchcock.'

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Robin Wood, a founding editor of CineAction, is the author of Sexual Politics and Narrative Film (Columbia, 1998) and Hollywood From Vietnam to Reagan (Columbia, 1985), among other books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Columbia University Press; Revised edition (May 15, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0231126956
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0231126953
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1340L
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches
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As in the photos, the books cover is from Hitchcock’s Films Revisited by Robin Wood; the rest of the book, all the bound, pages, are from a book called Waking, Dreaming Being by Evan Thompson, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. If anybody in New York City got the copy of Hitchcock‘s Films Revisited bound in the cover of Waking, Dreaming Being, I’d consider a swap.
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Christena Nelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate handbook on Hitch's Films
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2013
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My daughter and I are reviewing Hitchcock as a filmmaker. We are using a 15 dvd set of his films and studying the content of each movie. This book is so fascinating, I can't put it down. He uses his experience as a film critic plus his knowledge of Freudian psychology to analyze the characters and the way Hitchcock reveals the story to the audience.
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Alexander Jacoby
5.0 out of 5 stars As brilliant as it is controversial
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2005
Most of the comments posted about this book are embarrassing in their refusal to engage properly with what Robin Wood is actually trying to argue. Previous readers appear to resent Wood's desire to take the cinema seriously, and suggest that we should look to Hitchcock's films for no more than "craft" and "technique". If that's all one is concerned with, I'm not sure why it would be worth reading a book on Hitchcock at all. Wood has always been firm in asserting that the experience of watching a film is both emotional and intellectual. Taking the cinema seriously doesn't mean one has to stop responding to it emotionally. Nor does Hitchcock's status as a consummate entertainer invalidate Wood's arguments that his films raise profound and troubling moral and political questions.

Wood writes beautifully. Complaints about his reliance on Freudian or Marxist terminology are wrongheaded - such terminology is in fact employed far more rarely than by most academic writers. Wood's use of language is magnificently precise and careful. It is true that he conducts his critique of Hitchcock, as of other filmmakers, from a leftwing viewpoint. One does not have to share his commitment to Marxism (a kind of reconstructed, humanistic Marxism, incidentally, which has nothing to do with the atrocities perpetrated by Mao or Stalin) in order to appreciate the strength of his analysis. Anyone who is prepared, as a reader, to engage in lively debate with a writer's ideological and moral assumptions, should be able to profit by reading Wood's book.

I certainly don't agree with everything Wood has to say either on a political or an aesthetic level. But no other writer on Hitchcock, or on the cinema, has the same depth, reach or passion for his subject. Hitchcock's Films Revisited, presenting in tandem Wood's earlier and later thoughts on one of the cinema's great masters, is not only great criticism; it is also a moving account of one man's personal and political evolution.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incredible production error
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As in the photos, the books cover is from Hitchcock’s Films Revisited by Robin Wood; the rest of the book, all the bound, pages, are from a book called Waking, Dreaming Being by Evan Thompson, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. If anybody in New York City got the copy of Hitchcock‘s Films Revisited bound in the cover of Waking, Dreaming Being, I’d consider a swap.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Incredible production error
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
As in the photos, the books cover is from Hitchcock’s Films Revisited by Robin Wood; the rest of the book, all the bound, pages, are from a book called Waking, Dreaming Being by Evan Thompson, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. If anybody in New York City got the copy of Hitchcock‘s Films Revisited bound in the cover of Waking, Dreaming Being, I’d consider a swap.
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Thomas Parker
2.0 out of 5 stars Predigested Platitudes
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2004
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Occasional insights obscured by thickets of doctrinaire Freudianism. Let the reader beware!
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Gary F. Taylor
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting But Spotty
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2007
On the rare occasions when they bothered to contemplate him and his work, arts intelligentsia relegated Alfred Hitchcock to the status of competent craftsman of popular thrillers--until the 1960s, when a few critics began a major re-evaluation of his work. Among the best known of these was Robin Wood, who published HITCHCOCK'S FILMS in 1965. It would be among the first critical texts to give Hitchcock the status of master artist.

Republished as HITCHCOCK'S FILMS REVISITED, most of the body of the book remains the same as the originally titled HITCHCOCK'S FILMS, a critical study of eight of Hitchcock's then most recent films: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, REAR WINDOW, VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, and TORN CURTAIN. But then as now, the study is very problematic, and this has a great deal less to do with the films than with the fact that Wood is much like the Mother Goose nursery rhyme. When he is good he is very, very good, but when he is bad he is horrid.

Wood was among the first to rescue VERTIGO from the dismissive reviews and tepid audience response it received upon its debut, and his comments here are tremendously insightful; he is no less effective in his studies of REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO. His thoughts on STRANGERS ON A TRAIN are excessively pendantic and have a forced quality, but they are none the less interesting. He does not manage to convince me that I should regard NORTH BY NORTHWEST as a masterpiece, but even so he makes a good case.

In his opening remarks, Wood states that he is not among those fans for whom Hitchcock can do no wrong, and attempts to prove his point by citing several famous Hitchcock films that he considers weak. Indeed, he largely dismisses virtually every film Hitchcock made before 1940 and has a tendency to regard Hitchcock's films of the 1940s as developmental. But there is no two ways about it: he is completely off the mark when describes THE BIRDS and MARNIE as masterpieces and TORN CURTAIN as merely disappointing.

The basic problem is that Wood focuses on thematic elements to the virtual exclusion of everything else. It is true that Hitchcock tends toward certain themes--perhaps most obviously an ironic form of individual isolation--so it is hardly surprising that these also occur in THE BIRDS, MARNIE, and TORN CURTAIN. Indeed it would be a shock if they did not. But thematic presence does not necessarily qualify a film for the description of "masterpiece," and where THE BIRDS and MARNIE are concerned Wood throws the word around much too freely for my liking.

The great strength of both THE BIRDS and MARNIE is their numerous set pieces, many of which are very famous and all of which are highly watchable. In each instance, however, the film emerges as a premise in search of a viable plot, and whatever thematic interest may exist pales alongside this very fundamental fact. TORN CURTAIN has several interesting performances in the supporting cast and one truly spectacular Hitchcockian set piece, but it is chiefly remarkable for being among the handful of boring films that Hitchcock made, and no amount of thematic presence can alter this rather basic observation.

Wood has annotated his original text with subsequent articles, and the same situation holds true here as well: he tends to offer praise to those films that have something he can identify as a consistent thematic purpose and dismiss those that do not, all of it without regard to whether or not the film actually works as a film. His comments are not without interest, but in the end these are the musings of a literary scholar instead of an individual who has any real idea of the difference between "interesting failure" and "cinema masterpiece."

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Morad Sadeghi
5.0 out of 5 stars Hitchcock
Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2024
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The best book about Hitchcock that I have ever read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars really useful and indepth
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2016
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bought this for a university film module, really useful and indepth.
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Basil Seal
5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to Hitchcock's films.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2015
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A great place to start in studying Hitchcock.
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John S. Saul
3.0 out of 5 stars great...but badly packaged
Reviewed in Canada on May 9, 2017
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not well wrapped/packaged with (though "new") bottom right hand corner badly bent pretty much throughout the book - great book but this was a disappointment!
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