Name: The Dark Side of Genius
ISBN: 9780345314628

Donald Spoto

Drawing on the author's personal relationship with the enigmatic director, interviews, and rich archival materials, this full biography traces the complex patterns of Hitchcock's art and their links with his family background, education, and apprenticeship in Germany

The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

The Dark Side of Genius

This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director's obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized love—and he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock's English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.

The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock

The Dark Side Of Genius

Patrick Book

Exhaustively researched and thoroughly written (perhaps even bordering in the verge of over-written). It was fantastic to get a glimpse inside the mind of such an iconic real-life character. It was illuminating throughout, especially during the period of Hitchcock's sad devolution and demise.

The Dark Side of Genius The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

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