After an unparalleled string of artistic and commercial triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s; Alfred Hitchcock hit a career lull with the disappointing Torn Curtain and the disastrous Topaz. In 1971; the depressed director traveled to London; the city he had left in 1939 to make his reputation in Hollywood. The film he came to shoot there would mark a return to the style for which he had become known and would restore him to international acclaim.Like The 39 Steps; Saboteur; and North by Northwest before; Frenzy repeated the classic Hitchcock trope of a man on the run from the police while chasing down the real criminal. But unlike those previous works; Frenzy also featured some elements that were new to the master of suspensersquo;s films; including explicit nudity; depraved behavior; and a brutal act that would challenge Psychorsquo;s shower scene for the most disturbing depiction of violence in a Hitchcock film.In Alfred Hitchcockrsquo;s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece; Raymond Foery recounts the historymdash;writing; preproduction; casting; shooting; postproduction; and promotionmdash;of this great work. While there are other books on the production of an individual Hitchcock film; none go into as much detail; and none combine a history of the production process with an ongoing account of how this particular film relates to Hitchcockrsquo;s other works. Foery also discusses the reactions to Frenzy by critics and scholars while examining Hitchcockrsquo;smdash;and the filmrsquo;smdash;place in film history forty years later. Featuring original material relating to the making of Frenzy and previously unpublished information from the Hitchcock archives; this book will be of interest to film scholars and millions of Alfred Hitchcock fans.
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