Alfred Hitchcock : a life in darkness and light / Patrick McGilligan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGilligan, Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.

Hitchcock, Alfred.

Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 850 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Regan Books, [2003]

Summary:

From one of our most acclaimed biographers comes a fresh and definitive portrait of the most creative (and least understood) figure in film history In a career that spanned six decades and 60 films. Alfred Hitchcock was the dominant figure in the first century of cinema. His films--including Rear Window, Vertigo, Notorious, and Psycho--set new standards for invention and storytelling elan. Yet since his death, the public image of Hitchcock has crystallized into a series of iconic images: the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. This remarkable new biography--the first in a quarter-century--restores Hitchcock the man, in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman and the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted husband, a man who sacrificed his life, again and again, for his work.

Notes:

Filmography: pages [751]-785.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

006039322X

OCLC:

52039585