There was one ominous notation on the call sheet for 24 September, with a reference to “Mr. Finch late and shooting held up from 9:45 to 10:50.” It has been said that Hitchcock made Finch apologise to each member of the cast, ...
La vie et l'oeuvre du grand cinéaste vues à travers ses nombreux films (53). Une grande partie des illustrations sont tirées de ces films.
Het leven van de filmregisseur (1899-1980) met een uitgebreide beschrijving van zijn films.
With insights into his relationships with Hollywood legends – such as Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly – as well as his 54-year marriage to Alma Reville and his inspirations in the thriller genre, the book is ...
Now, upon the 50th anniversary of the release of "Psycho," rediscover the hits and uncover new details behind the unfinished films and the struggles of Hollywood's most famous director, Alfred Hitchcock. Includes many rare photographs.
If Hitchcock's insane monsters owe a debt to Peter Lorre's child sex murderer in Fritz Lang's M , then his usual villains - the criminal mastermind who is also a respected member of the community - are also reminiscent of Lang's Dr ...
themes that interested him« (Sterritt, 1993, p. ... The presence of these expressionistic elements has led to the film«s frequent categorisation as a film noir (for example, Hirsch, 1981; Silver and Ward, 1980) However, the elements ...
... been ill served by the over-use of what Christopher Williams has called 'the clumsy club of ideology' (1994, p. 276). Richard Allen shares these suspicions, stating that 'with sufficient ingenuity, all films become available for a ...
Provides a compact study of the famed director's life and career, combining biography and criticism.
47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
. . . There is no complete index to Hitchcock's career like this one and critics and historians will mine Sloan's work with enormous profit. . .
With insights into his relationships with Hollywood legends – such as Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly – as well as his 54-year marriage to Alma Reville and his inspirations in the thriller genre, the book is ...
Presents a collection of interviews with the British film director which span his five decade career. A collection of interviews with the director who has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy
José Luis Castro profesor del Departamento de Arte de la Universidad de Vigo asegura que todavía queda mucho campo en el estudio de la obra de Alfred Hitchcock y su influencia en la evolución del lenguaje del cine desde su llegada a ...
Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock's major British and Hollywood films and usefully navigates the reader through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants...
"The book is a fascinating journey through the portrait of this famous filmmaker, the master of suspense and thrillers, thanks to an analysis of the first so-called "special effects", today essential to so much contemporary cinema.
Alfred Hitchcock
In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock became the most widely recognized director who ever lived.
Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors.Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child.
Alfred Hitchcock: Sämtliche Filme