Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock A Brief Life Peter Ackroyd Doubleday2016Hardback288pp Illustrated233x159mm 9780385537414 Product Code: 508711 Details Hitchcock carefully controlled his public persona, emphasizing his lugubrious humour and often retelling selected anecdotes from his childhood to expl... DetailsBackDetailsHitchcock carefully controlled his public persona, emphasizing his lugubrious humour and often retelling selected anecdotes from his childhood to explain his mastery of the cinematic thriller. Delving behind these stories Ackroyd investigates what the director also owed to his formative experiences in British and German film-making and how the fears, fantasies and obsessions of his lonely upbringing in East London shaped his lifelong controlling personality and his films’ characteristic mixture of comedy and suspense. American-cut pages. Off-mint and felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.Read MoreRead Less publ $26.95now £11.99 Qty Qty123 Add to Basket CategoriesBiography (all)BiographyPerforming ArtsFilmTagsBiographyFilms cinemaIndividual actors & performers