Hitchcock’s Truth, or: Why The Wrong Man is Not a Suspense Film

Beyond Law and Order? Police History in Twentieth-Century Europe and the Search for New Perspectives

“…Todd Herzog (Chapter 5) and Hans Christian von Herrmann (Chapter 8) have found this too, but they have also paid close attention to the depiction of the police and of police work. 37 In so doing, both add something more exciting to the long-predominant focus on the representation of crime in films. Herzog links Fritz Lang's masterpiece 'M' to a concerned public in early 1930s Germany, which had been shaken by a number of stories on serial killers.…”