This latest work by Lanin A. Gyurko explores the decisive impact of the films of one of the greatest of film directors, Alfred Hitchcock, on the intricate literary art of Latin America's outstanding novelist and short story writer and the founder of the Latin American Novel of the Boom, Carlos Fuentes.

Alfred Hitchcock has transformed the cinematic world with a series of brilliant films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds and Marnie, all of which are examined in Dr. Gyurk...