![]() The “Hitchcockian blonde” is synonym of “elegance” and has a certain sensual and sexual aura. Hitchcock was well known for choosing blondes as lead actresses (Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren, Ingrid Bergman, Eva Marie Saint, Janet Leigh). He was able to mix narrative and technical ideas to create a meaningful result. Hitchcock easily fits these criteria as he was an innovator in new movie techniques, and knew how to use these technical aspects as a form of expression. To go further, Andrew Sarris’s, in Note on the Auteur Theory, establishes three criteria to define the place of a movie director as an auteur: his technical competences, his “distinguishable personality” and the interior meaning, which is a combination between the first two criteria. It’s particularly thanks to the interest that François Truffaut and other New Wave directors had for the work Hitchcock that this one gained the status of auteur. An iconic shot of Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut ![]() This was François Truffaut’s main motivation for the book: to change the opinion of the critic and highlight the true genius in this man. Indeed, everything has a reason to be in Hitchcock films. It was obvious to him that those films were made by a thoughtful man. Fortunately, when Truffaut watched them, he developed a positive opinion of Hitchcock work. As a sort of “revenge”, American and European critics decided to analyze his work very meticulously and denigrate each one of his films. As a matter of fact, what initially made him popular were his TV shows Suspicions (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the introduction of the final version of Hitchcock/Truffaut, French movie director François Truffaut explains how Hitchcock only gained an important international recognition quite late in his career. ![]() However, this hasn’t always been the case. His impressive filmography is often the object of various researches and analysis. ![]() It goes without saying that Sir Alfred Hitchcock is still one of the most acclaimed movie directors among contemporary cinephiles. I hope you will appreciate it.Īlfred Hitchcock and James Stewart during the filming of Rope (1948) The following text has initially been written for a class on film directors I attended at Concordia University. ![]()
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