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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of Hollywood's most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s, Joan Harrison, who grew from being the worst secretary Alfred Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the "Master of Suspense.""--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From Hitchcock's early work in England to his most celebrated films, White analyzes Hitchcock's oeuvre and provides new interpretations. He also delves into Hitchcock's ideas about gender; his complicated relationships with "his women" as well as leading men. White also writes movingly of Hitchcock's devotion to his wife and lifelong companion, Alma, who made vital contributions to numerous classic Hitchcock films, and burnished his mythology. He...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese Doubleday
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the iconic director traces his childhood isolation and the imagination that inspired many of his productions, sharing insights into his fierce control of press profiles, his fondness for practical jokes, and his determination to commemoratelife's frailty.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Using declassified FBI and CIA files, interviews, and the personal papers of blacklisted writers and other sources, Red Sapphire depicts how for the better part of a decade, Hannah Weinstein was a leader in the Left's battle with the Right to shape popular culture during the Cold War, a battle that she eventually won"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Alfred Hitchcock was fixated on the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The lengths he went to in order to showcase--and often manipulate--these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now. In Hitchcock's Blondes, Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the...
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