The Dark Side Of Genius: The Life Of Alfred Hitchcock - Softcover

Spoto, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030680932X ISBN 13: 9780306809323

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'An exemplary piece of cinema scholarship.' -- Washington Post

'Donald Spoto's excellent ... biography, now reissued, expertly lifts the veil of privacy Hitchcock drew round himself ... This book is truly valuable' The Sunday Times -- The Sunday Times

'This is easily the most insightful, engrossing and searingly myth-shattering study of Hitchcock to date. Never likely to be surpassed.' -- Total Film

'Without doubt, the fullest and most elaborately researched Hitchcock biography to date.' -- Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Donald Spoto is the author of many books, among them internationally best-selling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Ingrid Bergman. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 030680932X
• ISBN 13: 9780306809323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612