Книга: Alfred Hitchcock (Ackroyd Peter); Random House UK, 2016

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. 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 himself, 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, Carey 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. Alfred Hitchcock 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.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	978-0-09-928766-7
Автор(ы)	Ackroyd Peter
Автор	Ackroyd P.
Авторы	Ackroyd P.
Вес	0.22
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2016
Год публикации	2016
Жанр	биографии и мемуары
Издатель	Random House UK
Издательство	Vintage books
Кол-во страниц	288
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	280
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Переплет	Мягкий
Переплёт	Мягкий
Тип обложки	мягкая
Формат	130x200
Язык издания	Английский
Язык	Английский