Year of Hitchcock 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense

Name: Year of Hitchcock 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense
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Authors: Jim McDevitt, Eric San Juan

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Alfred Hitchcock's career spanned more than five decades, during which he directed more than 50 films, many of them indisputable classics: Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho, among others. In A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense, authors Jim McDevitt and Eric San Juan provide a comprehensive examination of Hitchcock's film-to-film development, spanning from the beginning of his career in silents to his final film in 1976, including his work on two French propaganda shorts he directed during World War II and segments he directed for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Organized into 52 chapters and arranged in chronological…

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.16" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Eric San Juan is the coauthor of A Year of Hitchcock (Scarecrow Press 2009) and Hitchcock's Villains (Scarecrow Press 2013), as well as Geek Wisdom (Quirk Books 2011) and other books. Before Breaking Bad came along, he thought Deadwood was the greatest thing since sliced bread. He still thinks it's pretty damn good.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Lodger (1927)



The Ring (1927)



Easy Virtue (1928)



Champagne (1928)



The Farmer's Wife (1928)



The Manxman (1929)



Blackmail (1929)



Juno and the Paycock (1930)



Murder! (1930)



The Skin Game (1931)



Rich and Strange (1931)



Number Seventeen (1932)



The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)



The 39 Steps (1935)



Secret Agent (1936)



Sabotage (1936)



Young and Innocent (1937)



The Lady Vanishes (1938)



Jamaica Inn (1939)



Rebecca (1940)



Foreign Correspondent (1940)



Mr. &Mrs. Smith (1941)



Suspicion (1941)



Saboteur (1942)



Shadow of a Doubt (1943)



Lifeboat (1944)



Bon Voyage (1944) and Aventure malgache (1944)



Spellbound (1945)



Notorious (1946)



The Paradine Case (1947)



Rope (1948)



Under Capricorn (1949)



Stage Fright (1950)



Strangers on a Train (1951)



I Confess (1953)



Dial M for Murder (1954)



Rear Window (1954)



To Catch a Thief "(1955)



The Trouble with Harry (1955)



Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1957)



The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)



The Wrong Man (1956)



Vertigo (1958)



North by Northwest (1959)



Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958-1961)



Psycho (1960)



The Birds (1963)



Mamie (1964)



Torn Curtain (1966)



Topaz (1969)



Frenzy (1972)



Family Plot (1976)



Hitchcockian Themes



Filmography


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Authors