Description: With the cooperation of the Hitchcock estate, and unprecedented access to the director's notes, files, and archives, Dan Auiler takes you from the very beginnings of story creation to the master's final touches of post-production and publicity. Actual production notes from Hitchcock's masterpieces join detailed interviews with key production personnel including writers, actors and actresses, and his personal assistant of more than thirty years. The book explores the production files of "Shadow of a Doubt", "North by Northwest", and many other films, as well as unfinished projects and the lost near-complete film "Kaleidoscope". Highlighted by nearly 100 photographs, chapters focus on finding and constructing the right story (featuring interviews with such screenwriters as Charles Bennett, Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman); envisioning the film (from storyboards to set design); the filming (spot-lighting Hitchcock's innovations and trick shots); music; marketing; and much more.

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