Author Archive for: ‘Adrian Schober’

Tony Lee Moral, Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (revised edition) The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Toronto & Plymouth, UK, 2013 ISBN:  978-0-8108-9107-4 283pp (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press) It is one of the great ironies that Alfred Hitchcock, the so-called Master of Suspense, couldn’t stand suspense in his own life, so much so that it would make him physically …

Noel Brown, The Hollywood Family Film:  A History, From Shirley Temple to Harry Potter I.B. Tauris, London & New York, 2012 ISBN: 978 1 78076 270 8 US$29 (pb) 276pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) The contemporary Hollywood family film, which accommodates an apparently limitless range of genres such as action-adventure, fantasy, sci-fi and even horror, has become synonymous …