The Dark Side of Genius
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
August 1999
Trade Paperback · 608 Pages
$22.95 U.S. · $27.50 CAN
ISBN 9780306809323
Da Capo Press
Trade Paperback · 608 Pages
$22.95 U.S. · $27.50 CAN
ISBN 9780306809323
Da Capo Press
Recommended for These Courses
- Performing Arts: Film Studies
- Performing Arts: General
- Performing Arts: History and Criticism of Film
Description
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director's obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized love — and he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock's English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.
About the Author
Donald Spoto is the author of many books, among them internationally best-selling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Ingrid Bergman. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.