{"product_id":"hitch-the-life-and-times-of-alfred-hitchcock-paperback","title":"Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Russell Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is universally known for such masterpieces as \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Birds.\u003c\/i\u003e John Russell Taylor, a distinguished film critic and friend of Hitchcock's, enjoyed his full cooperation. Based on numerous interviews, with photos from the private family albums, and an in-depth study of the making of his last film, this biography of the director is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any Hitchcock classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Russell Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e is an English critic and author. He was born in Dover and attended Dover Grammar School before obtaining a double first in English from Jesus College, Cambridge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe is the author of a vast number of critical works on cinema, and of biographies of important Anglo-American film figures including Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh and Alfred Hitchcock, whom he befriended in LA while teaching at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. Taylor's biography of Hitchcock is the only one to be written with its subject's full cooperation - and led him to write an intensive study of Hollywood's émigré in his book \u003ci\u003eStrangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaylor has written regularly for publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSight and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and T\u003ci\u003ehe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e throughout his career and was art critic for The Times until 2005. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe now lives in London and West Wales.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137468076167,"sku":"9781448216642","price":20.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ab34ee9c717cfeac496d32bd162eb0ce.webp?v=1732697799","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hitch-the-life-and-times-of-alfred-hitchcock-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}