Ebook: Hitchcock on Hitchcock. Volume 1, Selected Writings and Interviews

Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the cinema. Bringing the same exuberance and originality to his writing as he did to his films, he ranges from accounts of his own life and experiences to techniques of filmmaking and ideas about cinema in general. Wry, thoughtful, witty, and humorous-as well as brilliantly informative-this selection reve.;Cover; Hitchcock on Hitchcock; Title; Copyright ; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; A Life in Films ; Introduction ; My Screen Memories (1936); Life Among the Stars (1937); The Woman Who Knows Too Much (1956); After-Dinner Speech at the Screen Producers Guild Dinner (1965); Surviving (1977); Actors, Actresses, Stars; Introduction ; How I Choose My Heroines (1931); Are Stars Necessary? (1933); Women Are a Nuisance (1935); Nova Grows Up (1938); Crime Doesn't Pay (1938); What I'd Do to the Stars (1939); Elegance Above Sex (1962); Thrills, Suspense, the Audience; Introduction; Gas (1919).