Single copy of a hard-to-find hardcover edition of this title. Dust jacket, case, and interior are all in excellent shape.

This collection 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.

REVIEWS

"Who knew there was so much more intriguing material waiting to be gathered for Volume Two of Hitchcock on Hitchcock? Gottlieb has done a splendid job of searching down and intelligently introducing rare, often surprising items, including Hitchcock's early fiction, missing elements from his published conversations with Truffaut, and several of his little-known, nuanced essays on the craft of film making. Volume Two is a pleasure to read and a gift to anyone interested in the great director's career." James Naremore, author of An Invention without a Future: Essays on Cinema

"For nearly twenty years, film buffs have been unable to imagine a world without Hitchcock on Hitchcock. Now Sidney Gottlieb has unearthed another volume s worth of interviews, essays, and occasional pieces by the Master of Suspense, framing, contextualizing, and serving them up with unobtrusive deftness. I suspect that in less than twenty-four hours, readers exploring this gold mine of wisdom, opinion, memoir, anecdotes, and epigrams will be unable to imagine a world without Hitchcock on Hitchcock 2." Thomas Leitch, coeditor of A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A master of cinema form and arguably the world's greatest director of suspense films, Alfred Hitchcock was born in England and started out making films there, then gradually began working in the United States and spent the second half of his career working there exclusively. He started directing movies in the silent era and continued through the mid-1970s, producing too many classics and near-classic than can be listed here, although a short list would likely include Foreign Correspondent, Lifeboat, Rebecca, Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Communication and Media Arts at Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Connecticut. His undergraduate and graduate courses focus on critical approaches to media studies, film history, and film analysis. He is the longtime editor of the Hitchcock Annual(Columbia University Press) and has edited collections of Hitchcock's writings and interviews.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 1995
• Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520085280
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520085282
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches