Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho

Author : Stephen Rebello
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781453201220

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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello Pdf

A “meticulous history” of the classic suspense film based on exclusive interviews with the director, writers, cast, and crew (The New York Times Book Review). First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it, which has been adapted as a movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma Reville, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh. Stephen Rebello brings to life the creation of one of Hollywood’s most iconic films, from the story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for the character of Norman Bates, to Hitchcock’s groundbreaking achievements in cinematography, sound, editing, and promotion. Packed with captivating insights from the film’s stars, writers, and crewmembers, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is a riveting and definitive history of a signature Hitchcock cinematic masterpiece.

Author : Janet Leigh,Christopher Nickens
Publisher : Wings
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015034416381

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Psycho by Janet Leigh,Christopher Nickens Pdf

The Bates Motel. The ominous house on the hill. The shower. . . . Few movies have proven as enduringly fascinating to audiences, film buffs, and moviemakers as Hitchcock's horrific 1960 shocker Psycho. This book offers the complete, colorful account of the production, shooting, and aftermath of this mesmerizing, electrifying film. 50 photos.

Author : Stephen,Stephen Rebello
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 071453191X

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Alfred Hitchcock & the Making of Psycho by Stephen,Stephen Rebello Pdf

Author : Stephen Rebello,Richard Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032437639

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Reel Art by Stephen Rebello,Richard Allen Pdf

A deluxe, full-color collection of the most striking posters from Hollywood's greatest era includes the often surprising tales of their creation.

Author : Edward Margulies,Stephen Rebello
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0714529923

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Bad Movies We Love by Edward Margulies,Stephen Rebello Pdf

A hip, irreverent, witty tour of 203 of the worst movies of all time, describing absurd plotlines, the worst dialogue, most over-the-top performances, and memorably wacky scenes. Photos.

Author : Tony Lee Moral
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810891081

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Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie by Tony Lee Moral Pdf

After a decade of successful films that included Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock produced Marnie, an apparent artistic failure and an unquestionable commercial disappointment. Over the decades, however, the film’s reputation has undergone a reevaluation, and both critics and fans alike have come to appreciate Marnie’s many qualities. In Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie, Tony Lee Moral investigates the cultural and political factors governing the 1964 film’s production, the causes of its critical and commercial failure, and Marnie’s relevance for today’s artists and filmmakers. Hitchcock’s style, motivation, and fears regarding the film are well-documented in this examination of one of his most undervalued efforts. Moral uses extensive research, including personal interviews with Tippi Hedren and Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano—as well as unpublished excerpts from interviews with Hitchcock himself—to delve into the issues surrounding the film’s production and release. This revised edition features four new chapters that provide even more fascinating insights into the film’s production and Hitchcock’s working methods. Biographies of Winston Graham—the author of the novel on which the film is based—and screenwriter Jay Presson Allen provide clues into how they brought a feminist viewpoint to Marnie. Additional material addresses Hitchcock’s unrealized project Mary Rose and his efforts to bring it to the screen, the director’s visual style and subjective approach to Marnie, and an exploration of the “real” Alfred Hitchcock. The book also addresses criticisms of the director following the HBO television movie The Girl, which depicted the filming of Marnie. With newly obtained access to the Hitchcock Collection Production Archives at the Margaret Herrick Library, the files of Jay and Lewis Allen, and the memoirs of Winston Graham—as well as interviews in 2012 with the Hitchcock crew—this new edition of Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie provides an invaluable look behind the scenes of a film that has finally been recognized for its influence and vision. It contains more than thirty photos, including a storyboard sequence for the film.

Author : Thomson David Thomson,David Thomson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781458757968

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The Moment of Psycho by Thomson David Thomson,David Thomson Pdf

In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.

Author : Raymond Durgnat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844575602

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A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' by Raymond Durgnat Pdf

Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition. In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error'. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. This band of amis inconnus, among them William Empson, Edgar Morin and Manny Farber, had at its head Durgnat's mentor Thorold Dickinson. The book's story begins in the early 1960s, when Dickinson made the long hard look the basis of his pioneering film course at the Slade School of Fine Art, and Psycho became one of its first objects.

Author : Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578065623

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Alfred Hitchcock by Alfred Hitchcock Pdf

Hitchcock is still one of the most instantly recognizable film directors. These conversations dramatize his wit, intelligence, sophistication, serious contemplation, and even the playful manipulation of the interviewer.

Author : Robert Phillip Kolker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195169195

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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho by Robert Phillip Kolker Pdf

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook 'brings together critical essays on this influential and teachable film. The essays not only elaborate on the complexities of the film, but represent the spectrum of film criticism, including an analysis of its music and close readings illustrated by many stills from the film.

Author : Moral Tony Lee
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781842439555

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The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds by Moral Tony Lee Pdf

In his most innovative and technically challenging film, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock follows the success of Psycho with a modernist, avant garde horror-thriller, which has spawned many imitators and triggered the cycle for disaster and man versus nature films. Now to mark The Birds' 50th anniversary in 2013 and the digitally restored Blu-Ray release, The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds is the first book-length treatment on the production of this modernist masterpiece. Featuring new interviews with stars Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, as well as sketches and storyboards from Hitchcock's A-List technical team, Robert Boyle, Albert Whitlock and Harold Michelson, the book charts every aspect of the film's production all set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and JFK's presidency. Using unpublished material from the Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Evan Hunter files, Peggy Robertson papers and Robert Boyle's artwork, this book will be the ultimate guide to Hitchcock's most ambitious film.

Author : Jeff Kraft,Aaron Leventhal
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781595809193

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Footsteps in the Fog by Jeff Kraft,Aaron Leventhal Pdf

Footsteps in the Fog is a celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock. The master director's familiarity with Northern California greatly influenced his decision to use Bay Area locations in several of his landmark motion pictures, and more importantly was often the source of inspiration for many of these same cinema classics. Three of Hitchcock's masterpieces were set in the San Francisco area: Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, and The Birds. In addition, Rebecca, Suspicion, Marnie, Topaz, Psycho, and Family Plot utilized Bay Area locations and/or were inspired by Northern California events and settings. Footsteps in the Fog examines these famous films, taking the reader on a journey around the Bay Area, while weaving together cinemagraphic intrigue, Bay Area history and lore, and the timeless elegance of San Francisco and its picturesque surroundings. Over 400 historical and contemporary photos are featured in the book, including impromptu off-camera images and shots from the films themselves—many never before seen! Footsteps in the Fog can be used as a companion to viewing the Northern California Hitchcock films, as a guide for visiting the sites and settings used in these motion pictures, and as a source of biographical information about Alfred Hitchcock's personal connections to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Hitchcock loved Northern California; he often entertained Hollywood celebrities at his ranch and vineyard outside of Santa Cruz, and frequented such San Francisco institutions as Jack's Restaurant, the Fairmont Hotel, the Top of the Mark, and the historic Bercut Brothers' Grant Market. Hitchcock fans everywhere will rejoice as they revisit and rediscover the locations and settings used in the great director's most beloved films.

Author : Dan Auiler
Publisher : Dan Auiler
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vertigo: The Making of the Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler Pdf

25th Anniversary Edition Special edition of the the bestselling Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. The new e-text has images, a new preface and additional commentary on Vertigo's selection as the Best Film Ever Made by the BFI's Sight and Sound.

Author : Robert Bloch
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471914447

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Psycho by Robert Bloch Pdf

Marion is lost on a dark and lonely road; she's tired and hungry and afraid. She thinks she's dreaming when she sees a motel sign shining in the darkness: Bates Motel. But for Marion the nightmare is just beginning ... To most people Psycho needs no introduction, but although Alfred Hitchcock's film was largely faithful to the book, in the novel itself you will find a story more nuanced and - if possible - even darker.

Author : Manuel Munoz
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616201456

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What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz Pdf

The long-awaited first novel by the award-winning author of two impressive story collections explores the sinister side of desire in Bakersfield, California, circa 1959, when a famous director arrives to scout locations for a film about madness and murder at a roadside motel. Unfolding in much the same way that Hitchcock made Psycho—frame by frame, in pans, zooms, and close-ups—Mun~oz’s re-creation of a vanished era takes the reader into places no camera can go, venturing into the characters’ private thoughts, petty jealousies, and unrealized dreams. The result is a work of stunning originality.