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Book SynopsisA second volume of Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema. It offers a collection of interviews, articles with the director's byline, and as-told-to pieces that provides an enlivening perspective on a career that spanned seven decades and transformed the history of cinema.
Trade Review"For the more strictly cinematic sort of genius which everyone agrees Hitchcock had, the best bet [is] the volume by Gottlieb," Claremont Review of Books
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Stories and Suspense Introduction The Henley Telegraph Stories The Woman's Part (1919) Sordid (1920) And There Was No Rainbow (1920) What's Who? (1920) The History of Pea Eating (1920) Fedora (1921) Good-night, Nurse! (c. 1922--23) Hitchcock on Stories (1937) Lights! Action!--but Mostly Camera! (1941) Hitchcock, Master Maker of Mystery (1941) - Beth Twiggar Introduction to Intrigue: Four Great Spy Novels of Eric Ambler (1943) The Quality of Suspense (1945) The Film Thriller (1946) Death in the Crystal Ball (1950) The Wise Man of Kumin (1951) The Chloroform Clue: My Favorite True Mystery (1953) "It's the Manner of Telling": An Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1976) - Anthony Macklin Pure Cinema and the Hitchcock Touch Introduction Titles--Artistic and Otherwise (1921) How a Talking Film Is Made (1929) Why I Make Melodramas (1937) Some Thoughts on Color (1937) The "Hitch" Touch (1946) Encounter with Alfred Hitchcock (1956) Charles Bitsch and Francois Truffaut Alfred Hitchcock Murders a Blonde (1958) My Favorite Film Character Is--ME! (1959) A Lesson in PSYCHO-logy (1960) Rear Window (1968) On Directors and Directing Introduction An Autocrat of the Film Studio (1928) A New "Chair" Which a Woman Might Fill (1929) - Roger Burford A Columbus of the Screen (1931) Britain Must Be Great (1932) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Hitchcock on Truffaut (1962) Declaration of Alfred Hitchcock (1967) Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1973) Hitchcock at Work Introduction Making Murder! (1930) Hitchcock's Notes on Stage Fright (c. 1950) Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1955) - Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol Alfred Hitchcock Brings His Directing Techniques to the Medium of Television (1955) Hitch: I Wish I Didn't Have to Shoot the Picture (1966) - Budge Crawley, Fletcher Markle, and Gerald Pratley Hitchcock Speaks Introduction Hitchcock Speaking (1956) Women (1959) Alfred Hitchcock Resents (1962) - Bill Davidson The Chairman of the Board (1964) - Richard Gehman John Player Lecture (1967) Interview: Alfred Hitchcock (1978) - R. Allen Leider Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments of Permissions Index
