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Title: HITCHCOCK (REVISED EDITION) by Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut ISBN: 0-671-60429-5 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book about Alfred Hitchcock ever
Comment: First off, I have four bookshelves from the floor to the ceiling covered with books about Alfred Hitchcock so I know it when I say it... this is the best book you'll ever read about Alfred Hitchcock and his movies. Notice I say his movies because the Grams and Wikstrom book is the book you need to read if you want to explore Hitchcock's television work. For the most part, this publication is one long lengthy interview and is approached from a director's stand-point. Truffaut explores every aspect and Hitchcok took the time to explore and explain why he did what he did in his films, from his cameo appearances to the trick shots. You'll learn what movies Hitchcock admitted he wanted to do and couldn't resolve the problems (like Phone Booth). This book comes highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Perhaps the best conversation about film by two filmmakers
Comment: This book is an excellent document of who Hitchcock's mind worked, picked apart piece by piece - film by film - by Truffaut, another bonafida master of the medium. Hitchcock is so assure of himself and his place, because his self-critique isn't so whitewashed and he admits to mistakes, admits to acts of brilliance and admits most of all that he was truly the genius filmmaker that every who has seen at least 3 of his films can attest to.
Detailed discussion on how shots were done in say, Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds. Script changes in Rebecca, Suspicion and Spellbound.
Hitch's method is unique and can't (nor shouldn't) be copied, but to understand it enriches a readers subsequent understanding of cinema who's career spanned from the Silents to the 1970s!!! And he left and indeliable mark on directing, and film-storytelling as whole.
The only other interview book that is as exhaustive in the craft of filmmaking are Peter Bogdanovich's WHO THE DEVIL MADE I.T. His THIS IS ORSON WELLES isn't a bad supplement either!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have for a film buff
Comment: A fantastic concept for a film book that I cannot believe has not been used more often. Francois Truffaut asks all of the right questions and gets Hitch to open up on all of his films. Hitch opens up not only about the great ones, but also the misses (e.g., Under Capricorn, etc.). This is an especially great read when put together with Chabrol & Rohmer's book.
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Title: The Art of Alfred Hitchcock : Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures by Donald Spoto ISBN: 0385418132 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews by Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Gottlieb ISBN: 0520212223 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe ISBN: 0375709673 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Hitchcock's Notebooks: An Authorized And Illustrated Look Inside The Creative Mind Of Alfred Hitchcook by Dan Auiler ISBN: 0380799456 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood ISBN: 0231126956 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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