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“This book is an amazing guide to Hitchcock’s thought process…Truffaut got Hitchcock to reveal a lot of the different techniques that he used to put together his monumental body of work.” Read more...
The best books on Making Movies
Darren Aronofsky, Film Director
“One of the best books on film ever written…Hearing Truffaut, who is another one of my favourite directors, talking to Hitchcock and having this conversation where they reassess his career for the first time and start to talk about his career in terms of art rather than just entertainment, is fascinating.” Read more...
The best books on Film Directing
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Our most recommended books
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The Genius of the System
by Thomas Schatz -
An Empire of Their Own – How the Jews Invented Hollywood
by Neal Gabler -
Hitchcock
by François Truffaut -
Sergei Eisenstein
by Oksana Bulgakowa -
The Immediate Experience
by Robert Warshow, Stanley Cavell and Lionel Trilling -
Plots and Characters
by Millard Kaufman
