Full name: The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

Author: Donald Spoto Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780306809323 030680932X

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. Similar books: Alfred Hitchcock by Patrick McGilligan D.W. Griffith by Richard Schickel Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow Robert Mitchum by Lee Server Showman by David Thomson Keaton by Tom Dardis Woody Allen by Eric Lax More Than a Woman by James Spada Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride Garbo by Barry Paris Groucho by Stefan Kanfer Citizen Welles by Frank Brady Bogart by A. M. Sperber Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd