[Commlist] New book on Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt

*New book: */*Shadow of a Doubt* 
<https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/>/* by 
Diana Negra*

/Shadow of a Doubt 
<https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/>///(1943) 
was British-born Alfred Hitchcock’s sixth American film and the one that 
he at various times identified as his favourite and his best. This book 
redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to 
/Shadow/ even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship.

Analysing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, 
social history, homesickness and ‘family values’, Diane Negra shows how 
the film’s impeccable narrative structure is wedded to radical 
ideological content, linking the film’s terrors to the punishing effects 
of looking beyond conventional family and gender roles. This book 
understands /Shadow/ as an unconventionally female-centred Hitchcock 
text and a milestone film that marks the director’s emergent engagement 
with the pathologies of violence in American life and opens a window 
into the placement of femininity in World War II consensus culture and 
more broadly into the politics of mid-century gender and family life.

Pre-order online for a 30% discount 
<https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800859319/> – 
use discount code SHADOW30 at check-out.

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