Five of Hitchcock's most significant films were unavailable to the public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983-84. This highly readable volume collects the most important essays written about Hitchcock and the rereleased films since that time. Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock's centrality to an understanding of how culture shapes film and how film shapes, and even creates culture.
Five of Hitchcock's most significant films were unavailable to the public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983-84. This highly read...
Nominated for a nonfiction Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, "Scripting Hitchcock" explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: "Psycho, The Birds, " and "Marnie." Drawing from extensive interviews with the screenwriters and other film technicians who worked for Hitchcock, Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick illustrate how much of the filmmaking process took place not on the set or in front of the camera, but in the adaptation of the sources, the mutual creation of...
Nominated for a nonfiction Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, "Scripting Hitchcock" explores the collaborative process betw...
