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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Got to give it 3 stars. I like Peter Ackroyd and this is a good book about one of my favorite directors but it reads less like a biography and more like a history of his films and filmmaking. It is ,however, a good place to start if you want an introduction to the great Alfred Hitchcock. ( ) This is a good starting-point for those unfamiliar with Hitchcock's work and methods. Anyone who's already read Hitchcock / Truffaut won't learn anything mind-blowing or new--but there's still much to enjoy. Ackroyd is very good with the older Hitchcock, phoning in his projects, and there are touching moments in which the reader feels sorry for an old man who's richer than Croesus but is still unhappy. Part of the problem with any biography of Hitchcock is that his life was all lived in his art--there are no scandals, tempestuous marriages, arguments, etc. that give a biographer material. Hitchcock lived in his films. Interesting and informative, yet not all that it could have been. The book's slant was definitely about Hitchcock the man, revealing a lot about his basic nature and temperament, though I kept wondering how accurate the author's conclusions were. I guess I was hoping for more about the making of the various films. Still taught me a lot that I did not previously know. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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' portrait of himself, 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, Carey 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. Alfred Hitchcock 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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