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050 00 $aPN1998.3.H58$bA675 2015
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100 1 $aAckroyd, Peter,$d1949-$eauthor.
245 10 $aAlfred Hitchcock :$ba brief life /$cPeter Ackroyd.
250 $aFirst United States edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNan A. Talese/Doubleday,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a276 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aOriginally publilshed in hardcover in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2015.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [261]-264) and index.
505 0 $aThe child who never cried -- I'll do it -- Sound, please -- I was grey -- At home -- Fake it -- Oh dear -- I am typed -- Good evening -- Birds and beasts -- Back to basics.
520 $a"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. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: 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: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. In [this book], Peter Ackroyd 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,"--Amazon.com.
520 $aFat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition-- Hitchcock's childhood was an isolated one. As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals a jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. The result is a gripping biography of one of the most respected directors of the twentieth century.
600 10 $aHitchcock, Alfred,$d1899-1980.
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650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xProduction and direction$vAnecdotes.
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650 7 $aMotion pictures$xProduction and direction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01027357
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775 08 $iReproduction of (manifestation):$aAckroyd, Peter, 1949-$tAlfred Hitchcock$dLondon : Chatto & Windus, 2015$z9780701169930
776 08 $iOnline version:$aAckroyd, Peter, 1949-$tAlfred Hitchcock$bFirst United States edition.$dNew York : Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2016$z9780385537421$w(DLC) 2016023999
852 00 $bglx$hPN1998.3.H58$iA675 2015