TY - BOOK ID - 136528993 TI - The Men Who Knew Too Much AU - Griffin, Susan M AU - Nadel, Alan PY - 2012 SN - 019991057X 128342777X 9786613427779 0199877386 9780199877386 9780199764426 9780199764433 0199764425 0199764433 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press, USA DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures and literature KW - Hitchcock, Alfred, KW - James, Henry, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136528993 AB - Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial control. Their fictions and films are obsessed with knowledge and its powers: who knows what? What is there to know? The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at on ER -