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Even twenty years after his death and nearly fifty or more years after his creative peak, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is still arguably the most instantly recognizable film director in name, appearance, vision, and voice. Long ago, through a combination of timing, talent, genius, energy, and publicity, he made the key transition from proper noun to adjective that confirms celebrity and true stature. It is a rare filmwatcher indeed who cannot define "Hitchcockian."
As the director of such films as Psycho , North by Northwest , Spellbound , Vertigo , Rear Window , To Catch a Thief , Notorious , and The Birds , Hitchcock has become synonymous with both stylish, sophisticated suspense and mordant black comedy. He was one of the most interviewed directors in the history of film. Among the hundreds of interviews he gave, those in this collection catch Hitchcock at key moments of transition in his long career--as he moved from silent to sound pictures, from England to America, from thrillers to complex romances, and from director to producer-director.
These conversations dramatize his shifting attitudes on a variety of cinematic matters that engaged and challenged him, including the role of stars in a movie, the importance of story, the use of sound and color, his relationship to the medium of television, and the attractions and perils of realism.
His engaging wit and intelligence are on display here, as are his sophistication, serious contemplation, and playful manipulation of the interviewer.
Sidney Gottlieb, a professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, is the editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews .
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Arguably the most famous of all film directors, Hitchcock was very likely also the most interviewed; his career total is probably more than 1,000 interviews. That means that many of the 20 Gottlieb has collected will sound familiar to film buffs but also that Gottlieb had a wealth of material from which to choose. He has picked some gems, from throughout the five decades of Hitchcock's career, covering his output from early talkies in England to the 1970s, when the colloquies assume a retrospective tone. Perhaps the most valuable and revealing of them is an unusually technical 1948 question-and-answer session with a gathering of professional cinema technicians. Other standouts: a confrontation with provocative Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and an encounter with Andy Warhol that makes up in novelty what it lacks in informativeness. Even the more mundane entries offer the fun of watching Hitchcock play cat-and-mouse with the interviewer. Francois Truffaut's exhaustive, book-length conversation may be the definitive Hitchcock interview, but this collection confirms that the celebrated director had much more to say. --Gordon Flagg
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Introduction | p. vii |
Chronology | p. xxi |
Filmography | p. xxv |
The Talkie King Talks | p. 3 |
Advance Monologue | p. 5 |
Half the World in a Talkie | p. 7 |
The Man Who Made The 39 Steps: Pen Portrait of Alfred Hitchcock | p. 10 |
Britain's Leading Film Director Gives Some Hints to the Film Stars of the Future | p. 14 |
Mr. Hitchcock Discovers Love | p. 17 |
Production Methods Compared | p. 23 |
Alfred Hitchcock's Working Credo | p. 34 |
Story of an Interview | p. 38 |
Hitchcock | p. 44 |
Alfred Hitchcock: Mr. Chastity | p. 55 |
Alfred Hitchcock on His Films | p. 67 |
Let's Hear It for Hitchcock | p. 73 |
Dialogue on Film: Alfred Hitchcock | p. 84 |
Alfred Hitchcok | p. 105 |
Hitch, Hitch, Hitch, Hurrah! | p. 119 |
Alfred Hitchcock | p. 129 |
Alfred Hitchcock: The German Years | p. 156 |
Conversation with Alfred Hitchcock | p. 160 |
Hitchcock | p. 186 |
Index | p. 213 |