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Behind the scenes of some of the 20th century’s greatest movies with the Master of Suspense
“If you make a bomb go off, the audience has a shock that lasts 10 seconds,” said Alfred Hitchcock. “But if you simply tell them there’s a bomb, the suspense is dragged out and the audience is kept on pins and needles for five minutes.” Hitchcock’s ability to sustain almost unbearable tension, frame after frame, with devices such as this earned him the moniker of the “Master of Suspense.” Enthralling plots, innovative editing, distinctive camera movement and framing: these signatures made Hitchcock a true icon of cinema history―worshipped, revered and still imitated today.
Published on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Hitchcock, this volume celebrates the life and work of the filmmaker. Through a vast selection of photos and original content taken from the sets of masterpieces like Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), readers are taken backstage and behind the scenes to better understand the life and work of this cinematic genius.
One of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) made more than 50 feature films in a long and distinguished career of more than five decades. From his silent films of the 1920s through to his final works of the 1970s, Hitchcock’s suspenseful psychological thrillers have terrorized entire generations and redefined the film medium. Regularly credited with having directed some of the greatest films in cinematic history, he received an AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, 149 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Translation of: Alfred Hitchcock: il cinema ai bordi del nulla. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museo della grafica, Pisa, Italy, April 7 to September 1, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. *** "Despite the particularly short-sighted and obtuse critics who for years have considered Hitchcock merely a lover of useless and dangerous toys, a puritanical, complex fat man who was also obsessed with crime, blood and sex, he has revealed to us that the ordered world we thought we lived in is nothing but a formless chaos and that its apparent order is only a mask continually destined to crumble. [.] There is a sort of lucid, vertiginous and disorienting nihilism in Hitchcock's cinema. It puts our greedy fat man, the one who claimed to offer his audience tranches de ga^teau rather than tranches de vie, not only among the greatest creators of forms in the twentieth century [.] but also among the leading exponents of the culture of crisis, which, as Truffaut noted, sets him as alongside other "artists of anxiety" such as Kafka, Dostoevsky and Poe. [.] Hitchcock is one of them, the bearer of a vision that forces us all to look at ourselves in the mirror, and also to see what we would prefer not to see. Even the nothingness embedded in our names and in our identitites, even the emptiness and the cold of our bedrooms."--Back cover. "The book is a fascinating journey through the portrait of this famous filmmaker, the master of suspense and thrillers, thanks to an analysis of the first so-called "special effects", today essential to so much contemporary cinema. It explores the psychology of the characters, the most memorable scenes and Alfred Hitchcock's personality; what emerges is the portrait of an extraordinary filmmaker who was able to tackle gloomy topics and manage our fears without forgetting irony, a fundamental component to his entire existence." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Hitchcock, the bedroom and the fascination of nothing, by Gianni Canova; Hitchcock and the persistence of objects, by Antonio Costa; The blonde, a perfect crime, by Piera Detassis; Food and imposture: Hitchcock and the act of eating as dissimulation, by Stefano Locati; Hitch and the beast, or how Sir Alfred was afraid of the animal inside us, by Giorgio Gosetti; Notes on colour in Hitchcock's cinema, by Elena Gipponi; Hitchcock and art, by Leonardo Capano; A complex relationship: Hitchcock and Universal Pictures, by Stefano Locati; Films. Rope, 1948; Rear window, 1954; Vertigo, 1958; Psycho, 1960; The birds, 1963; Marnie, 1964. Size: 4to. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 108989
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