The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures

by Donald Spoto

Overview

This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. 

The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list—Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound—brings a flood of memories. In this essential text, reissued on the occasion of Hitchcock's centennial, internationally renowned Hitchcock authority Donald Spoto describes and analyzes every movie made by this master filmmaker. Illustrated throughout with shots from each film, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock also includes a storyboard section, a complete filmography, and “A Hitchcock Album” (sixteen pages of photos) as an added celebration of his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385418133
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/01/1991
Edition description:	2nd Edition, Revised and Updated
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	391,395
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Donald Spoto is the author of twenty-nine books, including bestselling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, and Audrey Hepburn. Spoto earned his Ph.D. from Fordham University and currently lives in Denmark.

Editorial Reviews

"Combines thoughtful and engaging analysis and wit and scholarship."—Chicago Sun-Times

From the Publisher

**** A revision of the 1976 Hopkinson and Blake edition (cited in BCL3). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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