The Alfred Hitchcock encyclopedia
By: Stephen Whitty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9781442251595
Subjects: Encyclopedias
Description: "Film critic Stephen Whitty provides a detailed overview of the director's work. This reference volume features in-depth critical entries on each of his major films as well as biographical essays on his most frequent collaborators and discussions of significant themes in his work. For this book, Whitty draws on primary-source materials such as interviews he conducted with associates of the director—including screenwriter Jay Presson Allen (Marnie), actresses Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest) and Kim Novak (Vertigo), actor Farley Granger (Strangers on a Train), actor and producer Norman Lloyd (Saboteur), and Hitchcock’s daughter Patricia (Stage Fright; Psycho)—among others."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.