FOCUS ON HITCHCOCK by LaValley, Albert J - 1972

Prentice Hall, 1972. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Sm 8vo. Black cloth, with white and magenta spine lettering. 186 pages, with Filmography, Selected Bibliography, and Index. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Illustrated dust-jacket has a small stain on rear panel, else Very Good+. With essays by Agee, Bazin, Kael, Sarris, and others. A crisp, unmarked copy, in dust-jacket.

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… Read More