April 21, 2021 Alexander C Kafka THE WASHINGTON POST – Locked down, scrutinising one another through windows and screens, suspicious of neighbours’ intentions, psychological soundness and political inclinations, we all live now in Alfred Hitchcock’s world. The cultural historian and The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense. While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions. White’s shrewd, interlocking essays yield no new juicy g...