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Alfred Hitchcock was the acknowledged master of the thriller, a genre he virtually invented. He was ... a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the colour era. Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable world directors during his lifetime, and remains one of the best known and most popular of all time.
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With 8-10 great films, and many others of enduring value, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the giants of cinema history. He never won an Academy Award for Best Picture. "Notorious" in 1946 was not even one of the five films nominated. Neither was "Vertigo" in 1958 or "Psycho" in 1960.
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Alfred Hitchcock's career as a director spanned 54 years (1922-1976) and over 60 feature films (plus his TV work). He made films in Britain, Germany, and “Hollywood.” For most of the films listed below, Alma Reville, who married Hitchcock in 1926, is listed as the editor and/or second assistant director. For many of Hitchcock's UK films in the 1930s, Reville wrote or co-wrote the screenplay or handled continuity.
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Alfred Hitchcock came to Hollywood under long-term contract with David O. Selznick. Although the association with Selznick provided the director a high-profile entrance into the industry and a degree of artistic freedom, Hitchcock found Selznick's creative vision unavoidably obtrusive. He ... resented the producer's loan out deals that sent the director to various studios, at a significant profit to Selznick. Most of Hitchcock's early American films were made on loan to other producers (including independents such as Walter Wanger and Jack Skirball) and studios (Twentieth Century-Fox), expanding the director's exposure to the industry, and laying the seeds of his own independent desires.
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was a British film director and producer, a master of the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in the United Kingdom before working mostly in the United States from 1939 onwards, taking out dual citizenship in 1956. The "Master of Suspense" and his family lived in a mountaintop estate high above Scotts Valley, California for 32 years, from 1940 to 1972. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the color era. Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and largely unrivaled control of pace and suspense throughout his movies.
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Hawkins, Joan:""See It from the Beginning": Hitchcock's Reconstruction of Film History."Hitchcock Annual [1999-2000] 13-29 "Examines the changes which filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock introduced in film spectatorship with the release of his 1960 film "Psycho." States that Hitchcock demanded exhibitors enforce the policy that once the film had started, nobody would be admitted inside the theater. Informs that a special manager training film sought to ensure that theater managers would know how to maximize the audience anticipation which Hitchcock so carefully fostered. Considers the explicit reasons why "Psycho" seemed to demand such a unique spectator policy. Imparts that Hitchcock effectively engaged both art cinema and horror conventions, by forcing spectators to view "Psycho" from beginning to end." [International Index to the Peforming Arts]
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