Meet the inventor of modern horror. This complete guide to the Hitchcock canon is a movie buff's dream: from his 1925 debut The Pleasure Garden to 1976's swan song Family Plot, we trace the filmmaker's entire life and career.
He is domineering in his insistence that the business transaction be done according to his whims , and in his treatment not only of the women but of Lowery the boss , whom he humiliates ( with his “ bottle in the desk " remark ) and ...
108 , 185 , 188 Keaton , Buster 10 Kellaway , Cecil 147 Kelly , Grace 106 , 115-16 , 117 , 117-18 , 119 , 120 , 122 ... Roy 146 Polanski , Roman 164 , 172 Pommer , Erich 53 , 55 Porter , Cole 104 Porter , Edwin S 10 Porter , Eric 40 ...
Parting ways with the Freudian and Lacanian readings that have dominated recent scholarly understanding of Hitchcock, David Humbert examines the roots of violence in the director’s narratives and finds them not in human sexuality but in ...
... and it took eight years to complete his four - picture deal . ... Money was no object Valli , Ann Todd , and Hitchcock during filming of The Paradine ...
This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.
François Truffaut, Hitchcock, rev. ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984), 347, notes “the Hitchcockian image par excellence is that of an innocent man who is mistaken for another man who is being hunted.
This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic -- including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his ...
A survey of Hitchcock's career, which spanned nearly sixty years, from his humble beginnings to his rise to become the master of suspense and psychological drama. Photos.***150 color illus.
The title, the first book-length study of the subject, can be used as a mini-encyclopaedia of Hitchcock's motifs, but the individual entries also give full attention to the wider social contexts, hidden sources and the sometimes unconscious ...