Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the books for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu A radical rereading of Hitchcock decodes the director's dense network of signatures and markings. HITCHCOCK¹S CRYPTONYMIES Volume I: Secret Agents Volume II: War Machines Tom Cohen University of Minnesota Press | 2005 Volume I | 376 pages ISBN 0-8166-4205-2 | hardcover | $74.95 ISBN 0-8166-4206-0 | paperback | $24.95 Volume II | 360 pages ISBN 0-8166-4170-6 | hardcover | $74.95 ISBN 0-8166-4171-4 | paperback | $24.95 Tom Cohen¹s radical exploration of Hitchcock¹s cinema departs from conventional approaches‹psychoanalytic, feminist, political‹to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings inscribed on and around his films. Aligning Hitchcock¹s agenda with the philosophical and aesthetic writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, and Benjamin, Cohen's project dramatically recasts the history and meaning of cinema itself. ³It is safe to say that no one who reads this book will ever look at any Hitchcock film quite the same way again.² ‹William Rothman ³A ferociously original book.² ‹Thomas Leitch The first volume provides a singularly close reading of The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound, and North by Northwest, exposing the visual and aural puns, graphic elements, and cryptograms that traverse his entire body of work. Cohen¹s second volume presents the director¹s works as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of his‹and cinema¹s‹place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as of the cinema¹s revolutionary impact on perception and memory. For more information, visit the books¹ webpages: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/cohen_hitchcock1.html http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/cohen_hitchcock2.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org