ALFRED HITCHCOCK: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (ICONS)
Book ID/图书代码： 04460019C00003
English Summary/英文概要： Widely regarded as the greatest filmmaker of the twentieth century, Alfred Hitchcock had a gift for creating suspense and a shrewd knowledge of human psychology. His film career, spanning more than half a century, is studded with classics from The 39 Steps to Psycho, North by Northwest to Vertigo (which in 2012 unseated Citizen Kane as the best movie of all time according to Sight and Sound). A master of intricate storytelling, Hitchcock was one of the first directors whose films belonged to both popular culture and high art. By the end of his life, he had gone from being the overweight son of a greengrocer in a London suburb to Hollywood’s reigning director, whose cameo roles in his own films were one of their most anticipated features, and whose profile was recognized by millions (thanks to the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
Michael Wood describes this journey with the wit and erudition that are the trademarks of his work, showcasing his singular ability to detect hidden patterns within apparently disparate forms. Whether he is writing about Henry James or Hollywood in the 1920s, he is alert to the fundamental truth lurking behind the stated meaning. In Hitchcock, Wood has found his ideal subject—an artist for whom explicit statement was anathema, who made conventional plot a hiding place rather than a source of revelation.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克被广泛认为是二十世纪最伟大的电影制作人，他有创造悬念的天赋，对人类心理学有着敏锐的了解。他的电影生涯跨越了半个多世纪，从《三十九级台阶》《惊魂记》《西北偏北》到《迷魂记》（2012年，《公民凯恩》被《视觉与声音》评为有史以来最好的电影），他的经典作品比比皆是。希区柯克是一位讲述复杂故事的大师，他是第一批电影导演同时也是流行文化和高级艺术的导演之一。在他生命的尽头，他已经从伦敦郊区一位蔬菜水果商的儿子变成了好莱坞的导演，他在自己的电影中客串的角色是他们最期待的内容之一，他的个人资料得到了数百万人的认可（多亏了电视节目《阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克的礼物》）。
迈克尔·伍德以其作品的标志性智慧和博学描述了这段旅程，展示了他在明显不同的形式中发现隐藏模式的独特能力。无论他是在写亨利·詹姆斯还是20世纪20年代的好莱坞，他都对隐藏在所述含义背后的根本真相保持警惕。在希区柯克身上，伍德找到了自己理想的主题——一个艺术家。他把传统的情节变成了一个隐藏的地方，而不是启示的来源。(ZY)
Awards/获奖情况：“这是对新手导演的优雅介绍，也是对电影爱好者的丰富知识，当谈到阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克时，你知道的其实并不多。”——《华尔街日报》
“这是对一位非常复杂的导演的生活和作品的一次聪明介绍。”——《书单》
“这样一本书能带你从一个内容到另一个内容，充满智慧、活力和快乐。这是一种罕见的乐趣。这就是迈克尔·伍德的这篇新综述。”——《费城问询者报》
"…an elegant introduction to the director for the novice and a wealth of knowledge for cineastes, demonstrating that when it comes to Alfred Hitchcock, you can never know too much.” —Wall Street Journal
“An intelligent introduction to the life and works of a very complicated director.” —Booklist
"It’s a rare pleasure for a book to carry you from cover to cover with wit, verve, and profit. That’s what happens with this new overview by Michael Wood." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔·伍德是许多作品的作者，包括《魔术师的怀疑：纳博科夫与小说的风险》《沉默的孩子：论当代小说》和《电影中的美国，对20世纪40年代和50年代好莱坞电影的调查》。他是《纽约书评》的定期撰稿人，也是普林斯顿大学比较文学名誉教授。Michael Wood is the author of many works, including The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction, and America in the Movies, a survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.
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