Hitchcock/Truffaut

In 1962, a young French journalist named François Truffaut spent a week in Hollywood conducting the most extensive interview in the history of cinema — fifty hours of conversation with Alfred Hitchcock about every film he had made, every technique he had developed, every idea he had formed about the relationship between the director and the audience. The result, published in 1966, is not just a book about Hitchcock but the essential text of film theory: the work in which the craft of cinema was most fully articulated, by the most articulate of its practitioners, to the most intelligent of his interlocutors.

Every filmmaker has read this book. Every student of cinema should read it. Every person who has ever sat in a dark room watching a story unfold on a screen and wanted to understand how the story was being told will find here the clearest and most authoritative explanation ever given.

Essential cinema. Essential reading. Published by Faber & Faber.