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The Life and Times of. Alfred Hitchcock. by. John Russell Taylor.

The Life and Times of. Hitch was very kind to me, and we got into the habit of lunching quite regularly together-just comfortable, social lunches in which we would talk at random about films we had been seeing, about England past and present and, naturally, about Hitch’s own earlier life and experiences, all of which, as a shameless fan, I gobbled up. It occurred to me early on that though there were several books about Hitch’s films, there was nothing really about Hitch the man-even Truffaut’s marathon interview touched on personal matters only very incidentally to the discussion of his work.

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But John Russell Taylor didn't have to go that route. Despite the fact Hitchcock's films are superficially discussed, the author, John Russell Taylor manages to narrate Alfred Hitchcock's life and times in such a way that I could not put it down, and I read it in record time (at least for me). He wrote this biography with the participation and blessings of the man himself. In Hitch, Taylor admits that his subject often projects his fantasies onto the screen. He also provides a good deal of insight into Hitchcock's domineering, obsessively courteous demeanor.

John Russell Taylor (born 19 June 1935) is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, and Ingrid Bergman; of Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933–1950 (1983); and several books on art.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, Motion picture producers and directors, Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma. New York : Pantheon Books. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; china.

Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock. Hitch - John Russell Taylor. For the Hitchcock family were that relative rarity in their class and with their background, long-standing English Catholics

Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock. by John Russell Taylor. For the Hitchcock family were that relative rarity in their class and with their background, long-standing English Catholics. In the East End of London, a melting-pot of nationalities, there was at that time and since a considerable Catholic population of, mostly, recent Irish extraction. And there were still pockets of the old Catholic gentry surviving not too far away, in East Anglia.

Despite the fact Hitchcock's films are superficially discussed, the author, John Russell Taylor manages to narrate Alfred Hitchcock's life and times in such a way that I could . Author John Russell Taylor definitely takes the high road.

The facts are all there but it is indeed a matter of interpretation of how the numerous anecdotes are retold that makes the difference here.

Hitchcock is a rather special kind of director. He is always ready to sacrifice dramatic logic (in so far as it exists) for the sake of a camera effect or a mood effect. He is aware of this and accepts the handicap

Hitchcock is a rather special kind of director. He is aware of this and accepts the handicap. Стр. 298 'Remember', says Hitch, 'all that matters, all that exists for the audience, is what is on the screen. It doesn't matter if the set extends no more than six inches beyond what the camera records - it could as well be six miles for all the effect.

Hitch: The Life and Times and Alfred Hitchcock. It's likely that readers who have watched many of Alfred Hitchcock's films can't help but have noticed how frequently he depicts fetishism, sadism, and voyeurism. One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds. Because Hitchcock was a reclusive man and a guarded interview subject, almost everyone who writes about him turns to his work for insight into his life.

The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock, by John Russell Taylor. And what better man to write such book than John Russell Taylor. the former film critic of The Times of London, who knows Mr. Hitchcock fairly well. who has studied his films and written about them extensively, and whose own English family background had some points of uncanny similarity with Hitch's was well placed to understand the ins and.