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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.     Subjects     Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.     Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.       by title:      Alfred Hitchcock : a...         MARC Display

Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life / Peter Ackroyd. by Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2015. Subjects Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.   Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9780385537414 (hardcover) 0385537417 (hardcover) Description:  276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First United States edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 him, 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, Cary 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. In [this book], Peter Ackroyd 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."--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Biography B Hitchcock Ac Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 791.43023 Hitchcock Ac Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.43023 Hitchcock Ac Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Biography B Hitchcock Ac Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Biography B Hitchcock Ac Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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