If you don't believe us when we say that Stephen Rebello's
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is a killer book
concerning the killer movie of all time, then why don't you
listen to Tony Perkins, the star? Perkins called this scholarly
yet super-readable volume "marvelously researched and
irresistible ... required reading not only for Psycho-philes,
but also for anyone interested in the backstage world of
movie creation." And Time critic Richard Schickel (biographer
of Clint Eastwood) calls Rebello's book "one of the best
accounts of the making of an individual movie we've ever had."

It's even more reliable than Francois Truffaut's magisterial
interview book Hitchcock, because Rebello interviewed the fat
master himself, plus many Psycho insiders less cagey and truth
dodging than he.

At last, thanks to Rebello, we know all about the celebrated
shower murder scene and all that swirls around it. Like Ernst
Lubitsch, who conveyed the thrill of adultery by having the
lovers open a door and cast their shadows on a bed, Hitchcock
knew that, in film, artful discretion can be the most shocking
effect of all. --Tim Appelo



Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
by Stephen Rebello
Language: EN
Pages: PDF 960 - EPUB 474