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Recommended Books
For a good introduction to Hitchcock's life and his films, we recommend the following books:
- "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light" - by Patrick McGilligan (2004)
- "The Alfred Hitchcock Story" - by Ken Mogg (2008) - 2nd edition
- "Hitchcock" - by François Truffaut (1968)
- "Hitchcock at Work" - by Bill Krohn (2000)
Alfred Hitchcock
Biographical works that mostly concentrate on Hitchcock's life or specific periods of his life...
The Major Hitchcock Biographies
- "Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock" - by John Russell Taylor (1978)
- "The Dark Side of Genius: Life of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Donald Spoto (1983)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light" - by Patrick McGilligan (2004)
Other Books about Hitchcock's Life
- "Alfred Hitchcock (Pocket Archive)" - by Serge Kaganski (1997)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: Filming Our Fears" - by Gene Adair (2002)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: The Icon Years" - by John William Law (1999)
- "The Alfred Hitchcock Story" - by Ken Mogg (2008) - 2nd edition
- "The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Thomas M. Leitch (2002)
- "Hitchcock and Selznick" - by Leonard J. Leff (1987)
- "Hitchcock: Piece by Piece" - by Laurent Bouzereau and Patricia Hitchcock (2010)
- "It's Only a Movie" - by Charlotte Chandler (2006)
- "The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock" - by David Freeman (1985)
- "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies" - by Donald Spoto (2008)
- "Hitchcock's Secret Notebooks" - by Dan Auiler (1999)
- "Mr. Hitchcock" - by Quentin Falk (2007)
Hitchcock's Films
Books that mostly concentrate on Hitchcock's work or on a specific film...
General Books about Hitchcock's Films
- "Alfred Hitchcock (Masters of Cinema)" - by Bill Krohn (2010) - revised edition
- "Alfred Hitchcock (On Directors)" - by Nicholas Haeffner (2005)
- "Alfred Hitchcock (Pocket Essentials)" - by Paul Duncan (1999)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography" - by Jane E Sloan (1995)
- "Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema" - by Tom Ryall (1986)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations" - by Gary Giblin (2009)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class" - by Tony Lee Moral (2013)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Silent Films" - by Marc Raymond Strauss (2005)
- "The Art of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Donald Spoto (1992)
- "Casting a Shadow: Creating the Hitchcock Film" - by Will Schmenner (2007)
- "The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Peter Bogdanovich (1963)
- "The Complete Films of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Robert A Harris and Michael Lasky (2002)
- "The Complete Hitchcock" - by Paul Condon and Jim Sangster (1999)
- "English Hitchcock" - by Charles Barr (2000)
- "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" - by George Perry (1965)
- "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Neil Sinyard (1987)
- "Footsteps in the Fog" - by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal (2002)
- "Hitchcock" - by François Truffaut (1968)
- "Hitchcock - the First Forty-Four Films" - by Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol (1979)
- "Hitchcock at Work" - by Bill Krohn (2000)
- "The Hitchcock Murders" - by Peter Conrad (2001)
- "Hitchcock Nonetheless" - by Marc Raymond Strauss (2006)
- "Hitchcock Poster Art" - by Mark H. Wolff (1999)
- "Hitchcock's Ear: Music and the Director's Art" - by David Schroeder (2012)
- "Hitchcock's Motifs" - by Michael Walker (2006)
- "Hitchcock's Music" - by Jack Sullivan (2007)
- "The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir" - by Herbert Coleman (2007)
- "Me and Hitch" - by Evan Hunter (1997)
- "Writing with Hitchcock" - by Steven DeRosa (2001)
- "The Wrong House" - by Steven Jacobs (2007)
- "A Year of Hitchcock" - by Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan (2009)
Books about a Specific Hitchcock Film
Blackmail (1929)
- "Blackmail" - by Tom Ryall (1993)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
Rear Window (1954)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window" - edited by John Belton (1999)
- "The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window" - by Stefan Sharff (1997)
- "Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-made Film" - by John Fawell (2001)
Vertigo (1958)
- "Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo: A Film Score Handbook (Film Score Guides)" - by David Cooper (2001)
- "The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration" - edited by Douglas A. Cunningham (2011)
- "Vertigo" - by Charles Barr (2012) - 2nd edition
- "Vertigo (Philosophers on Film)" - by Katalin Makkai (2012)
- "Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic" - by Dan Auiler (2001)
Psycho (1960)
- "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" - by Stephen Rebello (1990)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook" - edited by Robert Kolker (2004)
- "The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower" - by Robert Graysmith (2010)
- "A Long Hard Look at Psycho" - by Raymond Durgnat (2002)
- "The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder" - by David Thomson (2010)
- "Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller" - by Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens (1995)
- "Psycho in the Shower" - by Philip J Skerry (2009)
The Birds (1963)
- "The Birds" - by Camille Paglia (1998)
- "The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds" - by Tony Lee Moral (2013)
Marnie (1964)
Frenzy (1972)
Original Novels
Books, novels and short stories that were adapted into a film...
- "Before the Fact" - by Francis Iles — filmed as Suspicion (1941)
- "The Birds and Other Stories" - by Daphne Du Maurier
- "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" - by Arthur La Bern — filmed as Frenzy (1972)
- "Jamaica Inn" - by Daphne Du Maurier
- "The Lodger" by Marie Belloc Lowndes
- "Marnie" - by Winston Graham
- "Psycho" - by Robert Bloch
- "The Rainbird Pattern" - by Victor Canning — filmed as Family Plot (1976)
- "Rebecca" - by Daphne Du Maurier
- "Topaz" - by Leon Uris
- "Vertigo" - by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
Screenplays
Interviews, Essays, Criticism and Scholarly Articles
Books that are more academic in nature...
- "39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock" - edited by James Bell (2012)
- "After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality" - edited by David Boyd and R Barton Palmer (2007)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays" - edited by Richard Allen and S Ishii Gonzales (1999)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb (2003)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism" - by Paula Marantz Cohen (2006)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's America" - by Murray Pomerance (2013)
- "A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock" - edited by Thomas Leitch and Leland Poague (2011)
- "Dark Energy: Hitchcock's Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime" - by Philip J. Skerry (2013)
- "Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock" - by Paul Gordon (2008)
- "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan" - by Slavoj Zizek (1992)
- "An Eye for Hitchcock" - by Murray Pomerance (2004)
- "Fatal Spaces: Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and the Art of Murder" - by Ryan McBride (2007)
- "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" - by David Sterritt (1993)
- "Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games" - by Thomas M. Leitch (1991)
- "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse (2002)
- "Focus on Hitchcock" - edited by Albert J. Lavelley (1972)
- "The Hanging Figure: On Suspense and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Christopher D. Morris (2002)
- "Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema" - by John Orr (2005)
- "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences" - by Guy Cogeval and Dominique Paini (2000)
- "Hitchcock and France: The Forging of an Auteur" - by James M. Vest (2003)
- "Hitchcock and Philosophy" - by David Baggett (2007)
- "Hitchcock and Poe: The Legacy of Delight and Terror" - by Dennis R. Perry (2003)
- "Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations: Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception" - by Paul Elliott (2011)
- "Hitchcock and the Methods of Suspense" - by William Hare (2006)
- "Hitchcock as Activist: Politics and the War Films" - by Sam P. Simone (1985)
- "Hitchcock as Philosopher" - by Robert J Yanal (2005)
- "Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter" - edited by R. Barton Palmer and David Boyd (2011)
- "Hitchcock on Hitchcock" - edited by Sidney Gottlieb (1997)
- "The Hitchcock Romance: Love and Irony in Hitchcock's Films" - by Lesley Brill (1991)
- "Hitchcock: Past and Future" - edited by Richard Allen and Sam Ishii-Gonzales (2004)
- "A Hitchcock Reader" - edited by Marshall Deutelbaum and Leland A Poague (1989)
- "A Hitchcock Reader" (2nd ed) - edited by Marshall Deutelbaum and Leland Poague (2009)
- "Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour and Tone" - by Susan Smith (2000)
- "Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation" - by Robert E Kapsis (1992)
- "Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze" - by William Rothman (1982)
- "Hitchcock's America" - edited by Jonathan Freedman and Richard H. Millington (1999)
- "Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality: Lacan, Feminisms, and Queer Theory" - by Robert Samuels (1997)
- "Hitchcock's British Films" - by Maurice Yacowar (1977)
- "Hitchcock's Cryptonymies" - by Tom Cohen (2005)
- "Hitchcock's Films" - by Robin Wood (1970)
- "Hitchcock's Films Revisited" - by Robin Wood (2002)
- "Hitchcock's Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo" - edited by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (1991)
- "Hitchcock's Romantic Irony" - by Richard Allen (2007)
- "Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin" - by David Greven (2013)
- "Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie" - by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (2011)
- "The Silent Scream: Alfred Hitchcock's Sound Track" - by Elisabeth Weis (1982)
- "The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Raymond Durgnat (2004)
- "The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Charles Derry (1989)
- "The Women Who Knew Too Much" - by Tania Modleski (2005) - 2nd edition
The Hitchcock Annual
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 1 (1992)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 2 (1993)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 3 (1994)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 4 (1995)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 5 (1996)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 6 (1997)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 7 (1998)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 8 (1999)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 9 (2000-01)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 10 (2001-02)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 11 (2002-03)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 12 (2003-04)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 13 (2004-05)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 14 (2005-06)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 15 (2006-07)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 16 (2010-11)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 17 (2011-12)
- Hitchcock Annual: Volume 18 (2012-13)
Other Books
Other books of interest that don't quite fall into one of the above categories...
- "The A-Z of Hitchcock" - by Howard Maxford (2002)
- "The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion" - by Martin Grams Jnr and Patrik Wikstrom (2001)
- "Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense" - by Kees Moerbeek (2006)
— a pop-up Hitchcock book! - "The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz Book" - by Kathleen Kaska (1998)
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense" - edited by Linda Landrigan (2006)
- "Backstory 1: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age" - by Patrick McGilligan (1988)
— includes an interview with Charles Bennett - "Conversations with Cinematographers" - by David Ellis (2011)
— includes interviews with Gilbert Taylor, Jack Cardiff and Paul Wilson - "Dictionnaire Hitchcock" - by Laurent Bourdon (2007)
- "Hitch and Alma" - by Robert Schoen (1998)
- "Hitchcock's Blonde" - by John Hamilton (2008)
- "The Invisible Art: The Legends of Movie Matte Painting" - by Mark Cotta Vaz and Craig Barron (2004)
— includes examples of matte paintings from various Hitchcock films - "Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred" - edited by Steven Bode (2007)
- "Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art" - edited by Kerry Brougher and Michael Tarantino (1999)
Films about British Cinema
- "All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema" - edited by Charles Barr (1986)
— contains many references to Hitchcock's career in Britain - "Gainsborough Pictures" - edited by Pam Cook (1997)
— includes a chapter on Victor Saville written by Charles Barr - "The History of the British Film 1918-1929" - by Rachael Low (1971)
— contains many references to Hitchcock's career in Britain
Other Biographies
- "Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man" - by Pat Hitchcock O'Connell and Laurent Bouzereau (2004)
- "A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann" - by Steven C Smith (1991)
- "Michael Balcon Presents a Lifetime in Films" - by Michael Balcon (1969)
- "The Time of My Life" - by Walter C. Mycroft (2006)
Books Per Decade
If proof were needed of Hitchcock's increasing popularity, here are the number of books published per decade:
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