Alfred Hitchcock
Category: Books,Humor & Entertainment,Movies
Alfred Hitchcock Details
About the Author Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series. Read more
Reviews
I have many books on the life and career of the great director of suspense Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899-1980). This new book by Paul Duncan has ascended to the top of my list of musts on Hitchcock For a more conventional biography I still advise the work of Donald Spoto's classic work: Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius but if you want a big picture book with intelligent text this volume is just your cup of tea. Duncan shows us shots from all of the 53 films by Hitch from such early masterpieces as Lodger to such better known works as Rebecca, Notorious, Spellbound, Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much (both versions), The Wrong Man to Frenzy and many others. The book is reasonably priced and is a book to savor and turn to for the film lover and Hitchcock fan. Duncan is good at exploring such Hitchcock themes as the Man on the Run, a fear of heights, mysterious and cold blondes, the moral ambiguity of the universe and the dark nature of everyday mundane existence. Short pieces cover the careers of such famous Hitchcock stars as Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant and others as well as composer Bernard Hermann who scored many of the films of the master as well as other members of the technical team who worked for Hitchcock for many years. A book to savor and enjoy! Alfred Hitchcock was a complicated genius who joins novelist Charles Dickens as a cockney genius. Enjoy!