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The Alfred Hitchcock Collection
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FIVE THRILLERS THAT BECAME CLASSIC FILMS BY THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE The Lodger: Death stalks the London Fog! The Secret Agent: Anarchist terrorists plot to destroy Britain! The Man Who Knew Too Much: A classic collection of mysteries by an English master. The Manxman: A tale of romance in the British Isles. The 39 Steps: German spies plot to destroy the British fleet at the start of World War I!
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents: 13 Tales of New American Gothic
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents: 13 Tales of New American Gothic The power of Gothic fiction to delight and disturb in equal measure energizes this collection of stories drawn from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. In these stories, restless ghosts seek vengeance, cursed objects bedevil their owners, and unwary innocents are drawn into grotesque and frightening circumstances. Contributors Terry Black, John C. Boland, Rhys Bowen, Shelley Costa, O’Neil De Noux, Jean Femling, Martin Limón, Steve Lindley, Elaine Menge, Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Viets, James Lincoln Warren, and L. A. Wilson, Jr. All the familiar pleasures of Gothic fiction – creepy strangers, unsettling obsessions, physical confinement, evil legacies, uncanny events, and the looming threat of mysterious, malevolent forces – are rendered here in a distinctively modern American style.
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
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In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock became the most widely recognized director who ever lived. His films -- including The 39 Steps, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds -- set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling Élan. Since his death, Hitchcock has become crystallized in the public imagination as the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. But this remarkable biography draws on prodigious new research to restore Hitchcock the man -- the ingenious craftsman, the avid collaborator, the constant trickster, provocateur, and romantic. Like Hitchcock's best films, Patrick McGilligan's life of Hitchcock is a drama full of revelation, graced by a central love story, dark humor, and cliff-hanging suspense: a definitive portrait of the most creative, and least understood, figure in film history.
Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews
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Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Bringing the same exuberance and originality to his writing as he did to his films, he ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to techniques of filmmaking and ideas about cinema in general. Wry, thoughtful, witty, and humorous--as well as brilliantly informative--this selection reveals another side of the most renowned filmmaker of our time.
Sidney Gottlieb not only presents some of Hitchcock's most important pieces, but also places them in their historical context and in the context of Hitchcock's development as a director. He reflects on Hitchcock's complicated, often troubled, and continually evolving relationship toward women, both on and off the set. Some of the topics Hitchcock touches upon are the differences between English and American attitudes toward murder, the importance of comedy in film, and the uses and techniques of lighting. There are also many anecdotes of life among the stars, reminiscences from the sets of some of the most successful and innovative films of this century, and incisive insights into working method, film history, and the role of film in society.
Unlike some of the complex critical commentary that has emerged on his life and work, the director's own writing style is refreshingly straightforward and accessible. Throughout the collection, Hitchcock reveals a delight and curiosity about his medium that bring all his subjects to life.
No one knew more about manipulating a movie audience than Alfred Hitchcock, the legendary master of suspense. But while many film directors have written books about their ideas and techniques, Hitchcock discussed his personal theories almost exclusively in the short articles he wrote throughout his long life. Here, for the first time, most of these hard-to-find pieces have been collected. Sidney Gottlieb's well-edited volume features Hitchcock's thoughts on actors ("they should be treated like cattle"), effective film editing, the power of the thriller, proper uses of a director's talents, and the keys to any good suspense film: sex and murder. Gottlieb's introduction and running commentary is illuminating and helpful.
Tales of Terror: 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
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Be afraid—be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they “are guaranteed to chill and unnerve.” Bill Pronzini contributes “The Arrowmont Prison Riddle,” Margaret B. Maron has “A Very Special Talent,” Barry M. Malzberg offers “A Home Away from Home,” and Patricia Matthews chronicles “The Fall of Dr. Scourby.” Meet a girl who stalks Jack the Ripper, a clairvoyant writer of newspaper obituaries, a homicidal partygoer in a sanatorium, and a police detective who lives vicariously through the exploits of one of his most notorious suspects: they all populate these frightening pages. Caution: not recommended for late-night reading—except for the very brave!
Hitchcock (Revised Edition)
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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. Phillip Lopate The New York Times Book Review
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on two cinematic masters from very different backgrounds as they cover each of Hitch's films in succession. Though this book was initially published in 1967 when Hitchcock was still active, Truffaut later prepared a revised edition that covered the final stages of his career. It's difficult to think of a more informative or entertaining introduction to Hitchcock's art, interests, and peculiar sense of humor. The book is a storehouse of insight and witticism, including the master's impressions of a classic like Rear Window ("I was feeling very creative at the time, the batteries were well charged"), his technical insight into Psycho's shower scene ("the knife never touched the body; it was all done in the [editing]"), and his ruminations on flops such as Under Capricorn ("If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell 'Follow that car!'"). This is one of the most delightful film books in print. --Raphael Shargel
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man With A Problem - TV Squad
TV Squad, CA - May 26, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man With A ProblemThis is an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents from November, 1958 titled "Man with a Problem." It stars someone who would later go on to one of the great sitcoms, Elizabeth Montgomery, as well as Peter Mark Richman (who has been in everything) and
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5 Shaky Horror Film Premises - Film.com
Film.com, WA - May 21, 6972
5 Shaky Horror Film PremisesThis and Psycho are the two best reasons for Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as the Master of Suspense. The tension over why there are so many birds, and what they're going to do, is almost unbearable. The shaky premise: There's this videotape, you see,
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Repertory: Best of Animation Block Party - PW-Philadelphia Weekly
PW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - May 21, 5398
Repertory: Best of Animation Block PartyYou don't know meta till you've watched Alfred Hitchcock's most glorious mindfuck, for which he deliciously anticipated your watching the watcher. Probably a third of the film takes place in absolute silence—no music, no talking, just watching.
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Hitchcock Classics - "Torn Curtain" - MaineToday.com
MaineToday.com, ME - May 26, 2009
Hitchcock Classics - "Torn Curtain"Torn Curtain was Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews were both at their popularity when the film was released anchor this cold war spy thriller. An American scientist attends a convention in Copenhagen with his fiance-assistant.
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It's vultures vs. homeowners in Polk neighborhood - Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel, FL - May 26, 2009
It's vultures vs. homeowners in Polk neighborhoodMoffatt's life has transformed to something out of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie The Birds. In the mornings, the birds greet her with loud thumps as they land, hobble around and rip shingles off her new rooftop. Vultures prey on houses, cars in Fla. town
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