Home in Hollywood
Subtitle: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Film and Culture (Paperback))
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231122054
Subjects: Film & Video - History & Criticism; Pop Arts / Pop Culture
First sentence: In response to Francois Truffaut's suggestion that it was only after Alfred Hitchcock's arrival in the United States that he reached his creative peak as the master of the horror thriller, Hitchcock insists that it was his work for the British film industry that helped him develop his natural instincts, his directorial techniques, and his camera precepts, even though he did develop new and offbeat ideas once he left for Hollywood.