Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut (English) Paperback Book

Description: Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut The classic study of the great director and his films, comprising a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut, is fully updated with material on Hitchcocks last years and his final four films. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic Fran Author Biography Fran Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Edition Introduction 1: Childhood Behind prison bars "Came the dawn" Michael Balcon Woman to Woman Number Thirteen Introducing the future Mrs. Hitchcock A melodramatic shooting: The Pleasure Garden The Mountain Eagle 2: The first true Hitchcock: The Lodger Creating a purely visual form The glass floor Handcuffs and sex Why Hitchcock appears in his films Downhill Easy Virtue The Ring and One-Round Jack The Farmers Wife The Griffith influence Champagne The last silent movie: The Manxman. 3: Hitchcocks first sound film: Blackmail The Shuftan process Juno and the Paycock Why Hitchcock will never film Crime and Punishment What is suspense? Murder The Skin Game Rich and Strange Two innocents in Paris Number Seventeen Cats, cats everywhere Waltzes from Vienna The lowest ebb and the comeback. 4. The Man Who Knew Too Much When Churchill was chief of police M From "The One Note Man" to the deadly cymbals Clarification and simplification The Thirty-nine Steps John Buchans influence Understatement An old, bawdy story Mr. Memory Slice of life and slice of cake 5. The Secret Agent You dont always need a happy ending What do they have in Switzerland? Sabotage The child and the bomb An example of suspense The Lady Vanishes The plausibles A wire from David O. Selznick The last British film: Jamaica Inn Some conclusions about the British period. 6: Rebecca: A Cinderella-like story "Ive never received an Oscar" Foreign Correspondent Gary Coopers mistake In Holland, windmills and rain The bloodstained tulip Whats a MacGuffin? Flashback to The Thirty-nine Steps Mr. and Mrs. Smith "All actors are cattle" Suspicion The luminous glass of milk 7: Sabotage versus Saboteur A mass of ideas clutters up a picture Shadow of a Doubt Tribute to Thornton Wilder "The Merry Widow" An idealistic killer Lifeboat A microcosm of war Like a pack of dogs Return to London Modest war contribution: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache. 8: Return to America Spellbound Collaboration with Salvador Dali Notorious "The Song of the Flame" The uranium MacGuffin Under surveillance by the FBI A film about the cinema The Paradine Case Can Gregory Peck play a British lawyer? An intricate shot Horny hands, like the devil! 9: Rope: From 7:30 to 9:15 in one shot Clouds of spun glass Colors and shadows Walls that fade away Films must be cut How to make noises rise from the street Under Capricorn Infantilism and other errors in judgment Run for cover! "Ingrid, its only a movie!" Stage Fright The flashback that lied The better the villain, the better the picture 10: Spectacular comeback via Strangers on a Train A monopoly on the suspense genre The little man who crawled A bitchy wife I Confess A "barbaric sophisticate" The sanctity of confession Experience alone is not enough Fear of the police Story of a m Review Phillip Lopate "The New York Times Book Review" One is ravished by the density of insights into cinematic questions....Truffaut performed a tour de force of tact in getting this ordinarily guarded man to open up as he had never done before (and never would again)....If the 1967 "Hitchcock/Truffaut" can now be seen as something of a classic, this revised version is even better. Review Quote Phillip LopateThe New York Times Book ReviewOne is ravished by the density of insights into cinematic questions....Truffaut performed a tour de force of tact in getting this ordinarily guarded man to open up as he had never done before (and never would again)....If the 1967Hitchcock/Truffautcan now be seen as something of a classic, this revised version is even better. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 FRAN Details ISBN0671604295 Author Francois Truffaut Short Title HITCHCOCK REV/E Pages 367 Publisher Simon & Schuster Edition Description Revised Language English ISBN-10 0671604295 ISBN-13 9780671604295 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 791.430 Illustrations Yes Year 1985 Publication Date 1985-10-31 Residence US Birth 1932 DOI 10.1604/9780671604295 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 1985-10-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:83604609;

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