Focus on Hitchcock

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972. 5.5" wide by 8" tall. Bright, clean, square, and tight. No remainder marks. Previous owner's name. Flat spine. No creases. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos. Has an analysis of the Cary Grant cornfield chase sequence in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, with 25 pages of drawings (6 per page). Filmography. Bibliography. Index. From the rear cover: "In this volume LaValley presents the most comprehensive look at Hitchcock to date, examining the man and his films from a three-fold approach; Hitchcock on Hitchcock, the Hitchcock Controversy, and the Hitchcock films. Five articles, including both interviews and articles written by the director, reveal his own conception of himself as a film-maker. The diverse reactions of the critics -- from Lindsay Anderson's praise for the early British films and dislike of the American ones to CAHIERS DU CINEMA'S worshipful admiration of the American films -- are brought out in a whole section of articles on Hitchcock the director. In the third part, such masterpieces as REAR WINDOW, THE WRONG MAN, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, and PSYCHO are examined by a variety of critics, among them James Agee, Pauline Kael, Andre Bazin, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Raymond Durgnat, and Andrew Sarris, providing a rare opportunity to see all sides of Hitchcock through the diversity of responses he evokes.". First Printing of the First Edition.. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition.. vi, 186pp..