"Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb
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Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews
- series: "Conversations With Filmmakers"
- written by Alfred Hitchcock
- edited by Sidney Gottlieb
- published by University Press of Mississippi (May 2003)
- ISBN: 1578065623 - paperback
- Google Book Search: http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=XTZsFGuUXNYC
- Amazon Online Reader: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1578065623/
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Synopsis
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990) who, through a combination of timing, talent, genius, energy, and publicity, made the key transition from proper noun to adjective. It is a rare filmwatcher indeed who cannot define "Hitchcockian." As the director of such films as The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Jamaica Inn, Dial M for Murder, Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, and The Birds, to name just a few, Hitchcock has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy. Includes Chronology, Filmography and comprehensive index.
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Arguably the most famous of all film directors, Hitchcock was very likely also the most interviewed; his career total is probably more than 1,000 interviews. That means that many of the 20 Gottlieb has collected will sound familiar to film buffs but also that Gottlieb had a wealth of material from which to choose. He has picked some gems, from throughout the five decades of Hitchcock's career, covering his output from early talkies in England to the 1970s, when the colloquies assume a retrospective tone. Perhaps the most valuable and revealing of them is an unusually technical 1948 question-and-answer session with a gathering of professional cinema technicians. Other standouts: a confrontation with provocative Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and an encounter with Andy Warhol that makes up in novelty what it lacks in informativeness. Even the more mundane entries offer the fun of watching Hitchcock play cat-and-mouse with the interviewer. Francois Truffaut's exhaustive, book-length conversation may be the definitive Hitchcock interview, but this collection confirms that the celebrated director had much more to say.
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