Dial 'M' for Mother

Dial "M" for Mother is the first book-length study to consistently and systematically apply a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to a number of Hitchcock's major films. Central to this book is the author's analysis of a "mother complex" that informs not only the major male and female characters of these and other Hitchcock films but their plot, formal structure, and visual, cinematic artistry as well.