Browsing by Author "Hughes, R."

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    • Shadows and Doubts : Hitchcock, Genre and Villainy 

      Hughes, R. (Greenwood Press, 2001)
      Made over the summer of 1942 and released during 1943, Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt pre-dates the high point of the crime thriller on the American screen, but is nonetheless often characterised as the director’s ...

    • “Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings”: The Murderous Case of James Yates 

      Hughes, R. (2008)
      In 1781, James Yates, a farmer in upstate New York, brutally murdered his family while suffering from a “religious delusion.” Fifteen years later, in 1796, The New York Weekly Magazine published an anonymously authored ...