Product Description: In interviews ranging from 1955 to 1980, Alfred Hitchcock talks about the time he was locked in a police cell when he was a child and being typecast as a director of thrillers. He also discusses his early films; the advent of "talkies"; planning Psycho; American audiences; cinema techniques; horror films; and the influence of real crimes...read more

47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary (view table of contents)

Product Description: Be afraid—be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they “are guaranteed to chill and unnerve...read more

Presents a collection of interviews with the British film director which span his five decade career.

Product Description: La política de los autores, expresión abundantemente utilizada incluso en nuestros días en el campo del cine, se ha convertido en un concepto trillado por culpa de un uso cada vez más restrictivo: la reivindicación de un supuesto estatuto de artista que se debe otorgar al cineasta en el mismo grado que a un pintor o a un escritor...read more

Product Description: Is Peter’s kidnapping connected with a previous case of the Three ??? ? Justus and Bob begin the investi-gations. An anonymous letter suggests that the motive in the case is revenge, but who is the kidnapper? The two friends believe that it is a gangster who the Three Investigators arrested and who now wants to exact his revenge...read more

Product Description: Auténtico filme-canon y uno de los textos que más variados análisis y lecturas ha suscitado en toda la historia del cine, Vértigo parece incrementar día a día su relevancia estética y trascendencia histórica. Suprema expresión de la escritura fílmica de su autor, lúcido y por ello desesperanzado discurso sobre el amor y el deseo masculino, película clave para comprender el período final del clasicismo cinematográfico a la vez que poseedora de hallazgos formales que la aproximan inequívocamente al cine moderno, el abrumador rigor formal de su tejido significante hace inagotable el análisis de sus mecanismos narrativos y de puesta en escena...read more

This second volume of Alfred Hitchcock’s reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema contains material long out of print, not easily accessible, and in some cases forgotten or unknown. Edited by Sidney Gottlieb, this new collection of interviews, articles with the great director's byline, and “as-told-to” pieces provides an enlivening perspective on a career that spanned seven decades and transformed the history of cinema. In writings and interviews imbued with the same exuberance and originality that he brought to his films, Hitchcock ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to provocative comments on filmmaking techniques and cinema in general. Wry, thoughtful, witty, and humorous—as well as brilliantly informative and insightful—this volume contains much valuable material that adds to our understanding and appreciation of a titan who decades after his death remains one of the most renowned and influential of all filmmakers. François Truffaut once said that Hitchcock “had given more thought to the potential of his art than any of his colleagues.” This profound contemplation of his art is superbly captured in the pieces from all periods of Hitchcock’s career gathered in this volume, which reveal fascinating details about how he envisioned and attempted to create a “pure cinema” that was entertaining, commercially successful, and artistically ambitious and innovative in an environment that did not always support this lofty goal.

A treasury of crime tales and whodunits from the files of 'Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine' features two dozen stories by outstanding masters of the mystery genre

Presents an anthology of tales of mystery, murder, and suspense, selected from the archives of 'Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'

Contributor Robert Colby (Murder Door to Door); Richard Deming (Element of Risk); Elijah Ellis (Mildly Murderous); Douglas Farr (For Every Evil); Fletcher Flora (I'll Race You); C. B. Gilford (Murder in Mind); Richard Hardwick (Neighborly Observation); Edwin P. Hicks (Mousetrap); James Holding (Contraband); Ed Lacy; Gilbert A. Ralston (I Am Not a Thief, Mr. Kester); Alice-Mary Schnirring (Charley's Charm); Frank Sisk (Sawbuck Machine); Jeffrey M. Wallmann (Ransom Demand)

More tales of mystery and suspense, selected by the master of the genre

Stories of mystery and suspense, by some of America's leading writers, to enthrall readers who are sure they have already read it all

Featuring fifteen short stories, this second collection of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers offers a varied menu of evils--from the subtle to the horribly fantastic