File Updated: 30/06/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Open Court Pub APRIL-JUNE 07
David Baggett Hitchcock and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Pbk published June 2007 by Open Court Pub at £12.99 ISBN: 0812696166


* The gushing shower in the Bates motel suddenly becomes a shower of blood
* The birds line up on the fence, watching and waiting
* An airplane chases Cary Grant through a cornfield
* James Stewart experiences vertigo in the church tower in San Juan Bautista

These moments are as real to us as our earliest remembered birthday, or the assassination of King or the Kennedys.
Alfred Hitchcock is the cinematic genius who took over popular consciousness and won't let it go.
More than any other popular director, Hitchcock confronts his audience with disturbing ideas, concepts, and ethical issues.
* What does Sabotage, the classic movie portrait of a terrorist, teach us about 9/11?
* Can The Birds show us the distinguishing marks of human nature?
* Does Psycho come to the help of theologians concerned about the Problem of Evil?
* What insight does Lifeboat provide into the dilemmas of democracy confronted by the totalitarian mentality?
* Are the philosophically minded killers in Rope really disciples of Friedrich Nietzsche, or have they got Nietzschean ethics wrong?
* How does Vertigo illustrate the difficulty of really knowing another person?
* When is it rational for us to be terrified out of our wits?

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