Sir Alfred Joseph HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock希区柯克希区柯克

Sir Alfred Joseph HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock希区柯克希区柯克

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组员：吕改莉（组员：吕改莉（ 1B1115431B111543 ）） 张 蓉（张 蓉（ 1B1115411B111541 ）） 赵 芳（赵 芳（ 1B1115421B111542 ））

He was an English film director and producer.He pioneered （开辟） many techniques in the suspense（悬念） and psychological （心理学）thriller（惊险小说） genres( 流派 ). After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, billed as England's best director, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939and became a U.S. citizen in 1955.

Early life Hitchcock was brought up as a Roman Catholic and was sent to Salesian College and the Jesuit Classic school St Ignatius‘ College in Stamford Hill, London.His mother and paternal grandmother were of Irish extraction （出身） .He often described a lonely and sheltered （躲避） childhood worsened （变坏） by his obesity.

During this period, Hitchcock became intrigued （兴趣） by photography and started working in film production in London, working as a title card designer for the London branch （分公司） of what would become Paramount Pictures. In 1920, he received a full-time position （职位） at Islington Studios with its American owner, Famous Players-Lasky, and their British successor, Gainsborough Pictures, designing the titles for silent movies. His rise from title designer to film director took five years.

Inter-war British career Hitchcock‘s first few films faced a string

（一系列） of bad luck. His first directing project came in 1922 with the aptly （适当的） titled Number 13. The production was cancelled （取消） because of financial （经济的） problems; the few scenes that had been finished at that point have been lost.

Hitchcock (right) during the making of Number 13

Hollywood In Hollywood, the suspense and the gallows

（恐吓）humour( 幽默 ) that had become Hitchcock‘s trademark in film continued to appear in his productions. The working arrangements （整理） with Selznick were less than ideal. Selznick suffered from constant money problems, and Hitchcock was often displeased （生气的） with Selznick’s creative control over his films.

1940s films In September 1940, the Hitchcocks bought the 2

00-acre (0.81 km2) Cornwall Ranch near Scotts Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The ranch became the primary （主要的） residence （住所） of the Hitchcocks for the rest of their lives, although they kept their Bel Air home.

Notorious (1946) followed Spellbound. According to Hitchcock, in his book-length interview with François Truffaut, Selznick sold the director, the two stars (Grant and Bergman) and the screenplay (by Ben Hecht) to RKO Radio Pictures as a “package” （包） for $500,000 due to cost overruns （溢出） on Selznick‘s Duel in the Sun (1946). Notorious starred Hitchcock regulars Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, and features （特点） a plot about Nazis, uranium, and South America. It was a huge box office success and has remained one of Hitchcock’s most acclaimed （喝彩） films.[citation needed] His use of uranium as a plot device led to Hitchcock‘s being briefly under FBI surveillance. McGilligan writes that Hitchcock consulted Dr. Robert Millikan of Caltech about the development of an atomic bomb. Selznick complained that the notion was “science fiction”, only to be confronted （面临） by the news stories of the detonation of two atomic（原子能的） bombs （轰炸） on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945

  Grant and Bergman in Notorious

Last project and death Near the end of his life, Hitchcock had worked on

the script （脚本） for a projected spy thriller, The Short Night, collaborating （合作） with screenwriters James Costigan and Ernest Lehman. Despite some preliminary （准备） work, the story was never filmed. This was caused primarily （主要的） by Hitchcock‘s own failing health and his concerns over the health of his wife, Alma, who had suffered a stroke. The script was eventually published posthumously （于死后） , in a book on Hitchcock's last years.

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