Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews

471 Pages·2016·1.65 MB·English

by  Gottlieb

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of
the Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Endowment Fund of
the University of California Press Foundation.
HITCHCOCK ON HITCHCOCK
HITCHCOCK ON HITCHCOCK
Selected Writings and Interviews
Volume 2
EDITED BY
Sidney Gottlieb
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hitchcock,
Alfred, 1899– Hitchcock on Hitchcock: selected writings and
interviews, Volume 2/edited by Sidney Gottlieb.
p. cm.
“Bibliography of writings by Hitchcock”: p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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96039-8 (e-book) 1. Motion pictures. 2. Motion
pictures—Production and direction. 3. Hitchcock,
Alfred, 1899–—Interviews. I. Gottlieb, Sidney. II.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
STORIES AND SUSPENSE
Introduction
The Henley Telegraph Stories
The Woman’s Part (1919)
Sordid (1920)
And There Was No Rainbow (1920)
What’s Who? (1920)
The History of Pea Eating (1920)
Fedora (1921)
Good-night, Nurse! (c. 1922–23)
Hitchcock on Stories (1937)
Lights! Action!—but Mostly Camera! (1941)
Hitchcock, Master Maker of Mystery (1941)
Beth Twiggar
Introduction to Intrigue: Four Great Spy Novels of Eric Ambler
(1943)
The Quality of Suspense (1945)
The Film Thriller (1946)
Death in the Crystal Ball (1950)
The Wise Man of Kumin (1951)
The Chloroform Clue: My Favorite True Mystery (1953)
“It’s the Manner of Telling”: An Interview with Alfred
Hitchcock (1976)
Anthony Macklin
PURE CINEMA AND THE HITCHCOCK TOUCH
Introduction
Titles—Artistic and Otherwise (1921)
How a Talking Film Is Made (1929)
Why I Make Melodramas (1937)
Some Thoughts on Color (1937)
The “Hitch” Touch (1946)
Encounter with Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
Charles Bitsch and François Truffaut
Alfred Hitchcock Murders a Blonde (1958)
My Favorite Film Character Is—ME! (1959)
A Lesson in PSYCHO-logy (1960)
Rear Window (1968)
ON DIRECTORS AND DIRECTING
Introduction
An Autocrat of the Film Studio (1928)
A New “Chair” Which a Woman Might Fill (1929)
Roger Burford
A Columbus of the Screen (1931)
Britain Must Be Great (1932)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Hitchcock on Truffaut (1962)
Declaration of Alfred Hitchcock (1967)
Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1973)
HITCHCOCK AT WORK
Introduction
Making Murder! (1930)
Hitchcock’s Notes on Stage Fright (c. 1950)
Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (1955)
François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol
Alfred Hitchcock Brings His Directing Techniques to the
Medium of Television (1955)
Hitch: I Wish I Didn’t Have to Shoot the Picture (1966)
Budge Crawley, Fletcher Markle, and Gerald Pratley
HITCHCOCK SPEAKS
Introduction
Hitchcock Speaking (1956)
Women (1959)
Alfred Hitchcock Resents (1962)
Bill Davidson
The Chairman of the Board (1964)
Richard Gehman