The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto

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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

by Donald Spoto

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People/Characters

Alfred Hitchcock

Kim Novak

James Stewart

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Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Related movies

Awards and honors

Edgar Award (Critical / Biographical, 1984)

Epigraph

It takes the pity of God

to get to the bottom of things.

—Enid Bagnold,

The Chalk Garden

Dedication

for Ned

A friend may well be reckoned

the masterpiece of Nature.

—EMERSON

First words

My fascination with Alfred Hitchcock began over thirty years go, when I was a schoolboy and he was quickly becoming an international institution. (PREFACE)

Reporters and photographers, movie fans and autograph-seekers and guests at the Beverly Hilton Hotel clustered in the lobby all afternoon, and by five-thirty on March 7, 1979, the desk clerks and bellmen were finding routine duties almost impossible.

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Peck, Gregory

Kroll, Jack

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How is it possible to paint a portrait of an artist who left behind none of the notebooks and journals that provide most biographers with important personal details? After exhaustive researching and interviewing, Donald Spoto came to the conclusion that "Hitchcock's films were indeed his notebooks and journals ... [they] are astonishingly personal documents." This account of Alfred Hitchcock's life reads the mind of the man through the making of his films. Spoto argues powerfully and convincingly that movies like Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho can be appreciated not only as masterpieces of entertainment but also as subtle, revealing autobiography.

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