The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock
by:
Donald Spoto (author)
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock’s long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of...
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This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock’s long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director’s obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized loveand he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock’s English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780306809323 (030680932X)
ASIN: 030680932X
Publish date: August 30th 1999
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Pages no: 508
Edition language: English
A powerful biography on the master director and showman.