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Alfred Hitchcock / Peter Ackroyd.
In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals Hitchcock to be: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780701169930 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: viii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980. Motion picture producers and directors > Great Britain > Biography. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 791.430233092 Hitch-A | 31681002504819 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? This book tells his story. - Random House, Inc.
Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors.
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. How did this fearful figure become the most respected film director of the twentieth century?
Hitch, as he preferred to be called, rigourously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully-selected childhood anecdotes into full focus, blurring all others out. Peter Ackroyd's new account of his life wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.
