This is a landmark endeavor offering context and depth in order to flesh out scholarly inconsistencies concerning a key film in a career dominating much of contemporary scholarship."—Jan Olsson,  Professor of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University "In his extensively researched and valuable study, Miller vividly captures the world from which The Lodger,  the foundational Hitchcockian film,  emerged. Our appreciation and understanding of Hitchcock’s cinematic mastery deepen by setting the making and afterlife of The Lodger in a complex matrix of sociopolitical conditions, collaborations, and developments in filmmaking."—Sidney Gottlieb, editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock