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Author | : Peter Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780571210602 |
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Alfred Hitchcock relished his power to frighten us and believed the shocks he administered improved our psychological health. But he could never satisfactorily explain our curiosity to see forbidden things or the perverse desire to experience anxiety and dread that made his work so popular. In The Hitchcock Murders, Peter Conrad, one of Hitchcock's eager victims, undertakes the task on the master's behalf. At the age of thirteen, Conrad snuck into his first screening of Psycho, and he's been wary of showers and fruit cellars ever since. Thanks to Hitchcock, he's also suspicious of staircases, seagulls, and crop-dusting planes. Now he sets out to analyze the nature of Hitchcock's appeal to both himself and the millions of moviegoers for whom Hitchcock is cinema's foremost auteur. Examining Hitchcock's use of religion, morality, conscience, culpability, and literary symbols, Conrad unveils a chilling Nietzschean universe-one in which there is no God and no moral standard, where humans are petty and disposable and the neutral hand of fate can take a life in the blink of an eye. A timid, respectable man with the imagination of a psychopath, a chubby jester whose practical jokes took merciless advantage of human insecurities, Hitchcock is revealed here as the man who knew too much-about all of us.
Author | : Gavin Collinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-26 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9781908122858 |
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There's a psycho out there. He's murdering a young woman every Tuesday, killing in gruesome ways inspired by the movies of Alfred Hitchcock. Forced on a fast-track scheme for ethnic minority officers, Josa Jilani has been rocketed to Detective Superintendent with the London Met. But someone high up wants her to fail and she's made senior investigating officer in the hunt for the serial killer. Out of her depth, scared and with her reputation and livelihood on the line, she's determined to stop the murders and make her dad proud. She has a week to catch a killer.
Author | : Robert Graysmith |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-02-02 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 110118518X |
Download The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1605987190 |
Download The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of the evolution of the traditional English murder, from Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to the cozy crimes of the Golden Age. Murder—a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of the modern era, murder entered the popular psyche, and it’s been a part of us ever since. The Art of the English Murder is a unique exploration of the art of crime—and a riveting investigation into the English criminal soul by one of our finest historians.
Author | : Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
Publisher | : Arrowood Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780884860853 |
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Author | : Dan Aulier |
Publisher | : iBooks |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780743400176 |
Download Alfred Hitchcock in the Vertigo Murders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Alfred Hitchcock mystery.
Author | : Alfred Hitchcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780883657270 |
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47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
Author | : Fleur Hitchcock |
Publisher | : Nosy Crow |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788003349 |
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Shortlisted for CrimeFest Awards' Best Crime Novel for Children 2019 When Viv has a fight with Noah, she doesn't think it'll be the last time she sees him. But when she gets back from school, he's nowhere to be found and there are police cars everywhere, lights flashing and sirens blaring. Viv is sure Noah's run away to get attention. But it's really cold, and getting dark, and the rain just won't stop falling. So she sets off to look for him, furious at his selfishness, as the floodwaters rise. And then she finds him, and realises that a much more dangerous story is unfolding around them... From the author of Dear Scarlett, Saving Sophia and Murder in Midwinter "The story creeps in on you like darkness at dusk - a truly intriguing mystery!" - Chris Bradford, author of the Young Samurai series
Author | : Eric San Juan |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0810887762 |
Download Hitchcock's Villains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists. Unlike so many of cinema’s wrongdoers, the Hitchcock villain was often a complex individual with a nuanced personality and neuroses the common person might not be able to relate to, but could at least understand. If such figures did not always elicit sympathy from the audience, they still possessed characteristics that were oddly appealing. And frequently, viewers found them more likable than the heroes and heroines whom they victimized. In Hitchcock’s Villains: Murderers, Maniacs, and Mother Issues, authors Eric San Juan and Jim McDevitt explore a number of themes that form the foundation of villainy in Hitchcock’s long and acclaimed career. The authors also provide a detailed look at some of the director’s most noteworthy villains and examine how these characters were often central to the enjoyment of Hitchcock’s best films. Whether discussing Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt or Norman Bates in Psycho, the authors consider what attracted Hitchcock to such characters in the first place and why they endure as screen icons. Intended for both casual and ardent fans of Hitchcock, this book offers insight into what makes villainous characters tick. While serious students will appreciate observations in Hitchcock’s Villains that will enhance their study of cinema technique and writing, general fans of the director will simply enjoy delving further into the minds of their favorite villains.
Author | : Adam Roberts |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473221471 |
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Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying. Alma's partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine. So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home. What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.