Hitchcock / by Francois Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott.
By: Truffaut, Francois [interviewer.]
Contributor(s): Hitchcock, Alfred [interviewee.] | Scott, Helen G [editor.] | Hitchcock, Pat [honouree.]Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2017Edition: Revised editionDescription: 367 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0028597962ISBN: 9780571333691Uniform titles: Cinema selon Hitchcock. English Subject(s): Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation | Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 -- Interviews | Performing Arts | Films, cinema | Individual film directors, film-makers | Film production: technical & background skillsDDC classification: 791.430233092 Summary: A study of the great director and his films, this book recalls a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut. It is fully updated with material on Hitchcock's last years and his final four films. Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films - such as Psycho and The Birds - and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock's perception and his mastery of the art form.As a result of the changed perceptions about Hitchcock, his masterpiece, Vertigo, hit the No 1 slot in Sight & Sound's recent poll of film-makers and critics, displacing Citizen Kane as the Best Film of all time.
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Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films - such as Psycho and The Birds - and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock's perception and his mastery of the art form.
As a result of the changed perceptions about Hitchcock, his masterpiece, Vertigo , hit the No 1 slot in Sight & Sound's recent poll of film-makers and critics, displacing Citizen Kane as the Best Film of all time.
"The definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut"--Cover.
This edition originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Translated from the French.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
A study of the great director and his films, this book recalls a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut. It is fully updated with material on Hitchcock's last years and his final four films. Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through Hitchcock's films to discuss his career, techniques, and effects he achieved. It changed the way Hitchcock was perceived, as a popular director of suspense films - such as Psycho and The Birds - and revealed to moviegoers and critics, the depth of Hitchcock's perception and his mastery of the art form.As a result of the changed perceptions about Hitchcock, his masterpiece, Vertigo, hit the No 1 slot in Sight & Sound's recent poll of film-makers and critics, displacing Citizen Kane as the Best Film of all time.
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