Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock

Publisher's original photographic boards. No marks. Light shelfwear. Light bumping at corners. This is the French edition of the book. It preceded the English translation version by several months. Filled with hundreds of black and white pictures from Hitchcocks films. First published by Éditions Robert Laffont, it is based on a 1962 dialogue between Hitchcock and Truffaut, in which the two directors spent a week in a room at Universal Studios talking about movies. The book walks through all of Hitchcock's films, from his early British period to Torn Curtain. First published in 1966 as a transcription from a series of interviews, Truffaut (then 30, and having finished his third film, Jules and Jim, held with Hitchcock (having finished his 40th film, The Birds) in 1962, with Helen Scott as translator, discussing his films title by title, from production histories to aesthetics. As a work of cinematic analysis, nothing like it had been done before. Film culture was still defined by Hollywood studios and fan magazines that ran puff pieces on the latest blockbusters. There hadn't been a book devoted to a single director, certainly not one created by one being interviewed by another. The book helped establish Hitchcock's reputation as an auteur in the United States.