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Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life / Peter Ackroyd.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PN1998.3.H58 A675 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
- Hitchcock, Alfred.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--Anecdotes.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First United States edition.
- Summary:
- Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition-- Hitchcock's childhood was an isolated one. As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals a jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. The result is a gripping biography of one of the most respected directors of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- The child who never cried
- I'll do it
- Sound, please
- I was grey
- At home
- Fake it
- Oh dear
- I am typed
- Good evening
- Birds and beasts
- Back to basics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author. Alfred Hitchcock
- ISBN:
- 9780385537414 : HRD
- 0385537417 : HRD
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