Journal of Film and Video (2010) - Spellbound by Beauty: Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies

Details

• book review: Spellbound by Beauty: Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
• author(s): Johannes Bockwoldt
• journal: Journal of Film and Video (2010)
• issue: volume 62, issue 3, pages 63-64
• DOI: 10.1353/jfv.2010.0006
• journal ISSN: 0742-4671
• publisher: University of Illinois Press
• keywords: "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies" - by Donald Spoto, "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Donald Spoto, Actors, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, Book reviews, Books, Donald Spoto, François Truffaut, Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman, Johannes Bockwoldt, Kim Novak, Marnie (1964), Martin Scorsese, Motion picture directors & producers, New York City, New York, North by Northwest (1959), Patrick McGilligan, Psycho (1960), Spellbound (1945), The Birds (1963), Tippi Hedren, Vertigo (1958)

ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Spellbound+by+Beauty%3A+Hitchcock+and+His+Leading+Ladies.%28Book+review%29&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Film+and+Video&rft.au=Bockwoldt%2C+Johannes&rft.date=2010-01-01&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.issn=0742-4671&rft.volume=62&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=63&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=235193963

Links

• Google Scholar
• search.proquest.com
• DOI.org

Abstract

Review of "Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies" - by Donald Spoto

In this book, Spoto responded to Truffaut's perspective of Hitchcock: "It also hurt and disappointed just about everybody who had ever worked with Alfred Hitchcock, for the interviews reduced the writers, the designers, the photographers, the composers, and the actors to little else than elves in the master carpenter's workshop" (495). The other problem is of course how, in the age of American Idol audiences, to generate interest in a director whose beginnings reach back into the silent film era and whose work is by now decidedly classical.