Hitchcock at Work is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes examination of the work of 'The Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980).Film expert Bill Krohn looks beyond the usual anecdotal sources about Hitchcock, paying unprecedented attention to the director's personal papers and the archives of the film studios he worked for. The result is a major reassessment of the working methods of the director, one which explores many of the myths - often promulgated by Hitchcock himself - that have warped previous criticism. Hitchcock at Work is fully illustrated with film stills, shots taken on set, storyboards and annotated film scripts. There is also a complete filmography.'Of all the books on the Master, Bill Krohn's is quite the most splendid and involving. Given the kind of breathtaking visual treatment that is the hallmark of the publisher Phaidon, keen and penetrating text is matched by images that do full justice to the remarkable pictorial qualities of Hitchcock's films. Absolutely essential.' (News International Genre Hotline)'The most useful book I've read recently about Alfred Hitchcock + I bought it last year, at first sight mainly for the pictures - rare, unusual and immaculately reproduced in colour and monochrome - and then found it telling me more than I had ever known about the behind-the-scenes Hitch + a real contribution to primary scholarship.' (Alexander Walker, Evening Standard)

Hitchcock At Work

Humor & Entertainment

Krohn, Bill

Movies

Phaidon Press

Hitchcock at Work is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes examination of the work of 'The Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). 
Film expert Bill Krohn looks beyond the usual anecdotal sources about Hitchcock, paying unprecedented attention to the director's personal papers and the archives of the film studios he worked for. The result is a major reassessment of the working methods of the director, one which explores many of the myths - often promulgated by Hitchcock himself - that have warped previous criticism. 
Hitchcock at Work is fully illustrated with film stills, shots taken on set, storyboards and annotated film scripts. There is also a complete filmography. 
'Of all the books on the Master, Bill Krohn's is quite the most splendid and involving. Given the kind of breathtaking visual treatment that is the hallmark of the publisher Phaidon, keen and penetrating text is matched by images that do full justice to the remarkable pictorial qualities of Hitchcock's films. Absolutely essential.' 
(News International Genre Hotline) 
'The most useful book I've read recently about Alfred Hitchcock Ö I bought it last year, at first sight mainly for the pictures - rare, unusual and immaculately reproduced in colour and monochrome - and then found it telling me more than I had ever known about the behind-the-scenes Hitch Ö a real contribution to primary scholarship.' 
(Alexander Walker, Evening Standard)

Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 18991980) is undeniably theworlds most famous film director. His name hasbecome synonymous with the cinema, and eachnew generation takes the same pleasure in rediscoveringhis films, which are now treasures ofour artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in theBritish silent cinema of the 1920s, which reachedits peak with successful thrillers such as The ManWho Knew Too Much (1934), Sabotage (1936)and The Lady Vanishes (1938). Recognized as ayoung genius, Hitchcock moved to Hollywoodand set about reinventing cinematic tradition,combining the modern with the classic in filmssuch as Vertigo (1957), North by Northwest (1959)and The Birds (1963). Hitchcock gave talentedactors such as James Stewart and Cary Grantthe chance to play enduring antiheroes andimprinted the public imagination with the mythof the blonde, as embodied by Grace Kelly, KimNovak and Tippi Hedren.

Alfred Hitchcock (Masters of Cinema)

Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 (SUNY: Horizons of Cinema)

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 (SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema)

State Univ of New York Pr

"Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies and passionate writing about them. Krohn connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work"--

Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably the world's most famous film director. His name has become synonymous with the cinema, and each new generation takes the same pleasure in rediscovering his films, which are now treasures of our artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in the British silent cinema of the 1920s, which reached its peak with successful thrillers such as "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934), "Sabotage" (1936) and "The Lady Vanishes" (1938). Recognized as a 'young genius', Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and set about reinventing cinematic tradition,combining the modern with the classic in films such as "Vertigo" (1957), "North by Northwest" (1959)and "The Birds" (1963). Hitchcock gave talented actors such as James Stewart and Cary Grant the chance to play enduring antiheroes and imprinted the public imagination with the myth of the 'blonde', as embodied by Grace Kelly, Kim Novak and Tippi Hedren.

Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Stanley KubrickAuthor: Krohn, BillPublisher: Phaidon Inc LtdPublication Date: 2010/11/10Number of Pages: 102Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2011380255

Stanley Kubrick (Masters of Cinema)

Stanley Kubrick

Cahiers du Cinéma

Luis Bu?uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging fidelity to his principles for fifty years. After an audacious Parisian showing of Un Chien Andalou in 1929 (Bu?uel carried stones in his pockets in case he needed them to fend off the audience), Bu?uel's subsequent career in Spain (Las Hurdes), Hollywood and Mexico (Los Olvidados, Robinson Crusoe, El, Nazarin) before returning to France (Diary of aChambermaid, Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire), showed that the only subjects he cared to make films about were the three that are never supposed to be discussed in polite society: sex, religion, and politics.

Luis Bunuel: Chimera 1900-1983

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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Hitchcock At Work

Hitchcock At Work

Alfred Hitchcock (Masters of Cinema)

Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 (SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema)

Letters from Hollywood: 1977-2017 (SUNY: Horizons of Cinema)

Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock

Stanley Kubrick (Masters of Cinema)

Stanley Kubrick

Luis Bunuel: Chimera 1900-1983