Contents

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

A Life in Films

Introduction

My Screen Memories (1936)

Life Among the Stars (1937)

The Woman Who Knows Too Much (1956)

After-Dinner Speech at the Screen Producers Guild Dinner (1965)

Surviving (1977)

Actors, Actresses, Stars

Introduction

How I Choose My Heroines (1931)

Are Stars Necessary? (1933)

Women Are a Nuisance (1935)

Nova Grows Up (1938)

Crime Doesn’t Pay (1938)

What I’d Do to the Stars (1939)

Elegance Above Sex (1962)

Thrills, Suspense, the Audience

Introduction

Gas (1919)

Why “Thrillers” Thrive (1936)

Let ’Em Play God (1948)

The Enjoyment of Fear (1949)

Master of Suspense: Being a Self-Analysis by Alfred Hitchcock (1950)

Core of the Movie—The Chase (1950)

Murder—With English on It (1957)

Would You Like to Know Your Future? (1959)

Why I Am Afraid of the Dark (1960)

A Redbook Dialogue: Alfred Hitchcock and Dr. Fredric Wertham (1963)

Film Production

Introduction

Films We Could Make (1927)

“Stodgy” British Pictures (1934)

If I Were Head of a Production Company (1935)

More Cabbages, Fewer Kings: A Believer in the Little Man (1937)

Much Ado About Nothing? (1937)

Directors Are Dead (1937)

Director’s Problems (1938)

The Censor and Sydney Street (1938)

The Censor Wouldn’t Pass It (1938)

Old Ruts Are New Ruts (1939)

Production Methods Compared (1949)

Film Production (1965)

In the Hall of Mogul Kings (1969)

Technique, Style, and Hitchcock at Work

Introduction

On Music in Films (1933–1934)

Close Your Eyes and Visualize! (1936)

Search for the Sun (1937)

Direction (1937)

Some Aspects of Direction (1938)

Lecture at Columbia University (1939)

My Most Exciting Picture (1948)

On Style (1963)

Hitchcock Talks About Lights, Camera, Action (1967)

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s  .  .  .  The Birds (1968)

Hitchcock at Work (1976)

 

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK

WORKS CITED

INDEX