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Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo—in which obsessve ex-cop James Stewart pursues troubled loner Kim Novak throughout San Francisco—is one of the most dissected, discussed, and revered movies of all time. Now, for the first time, the story of this remakable film is revealed. Writing with the full cooperation of the director's family and many crew members, Dan Auiler offers up a remarkable in-deph re-creation of Hitchcock's signature thriller. The result is one of the most thorough and illuminating studies of a single film ever published, and a testament to the enduring power of Hitchcock's masterwork of suspense.

Subject
history
Themes
movies
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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