This is the definitive, Edgar Award-winning biography of the enigmatic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock's obsessions and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizarr
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth ev
"This is the definitive, Edgar Award-winning biography of the enigmatic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock's obsessions and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizar
In The Dark Side of Genius, Laurinda Dixon examines "melancholia" as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Once considered to have a physical and psych
"Examines 'melancholia' as a philosophical, medical, and social phenomenon in early modern art. Argues that, despite advances in art and science, the topos of the dispirited intellectual continues to
Actually none of these experiments are inherently evil, so obviously the reader will be responsible for the dark side of, say, library functions. However, test architect Predko supplies enough experim
A repackaging of the popular The Best of the Rejection Collection in a smaller, more compact format with 20% new material. It's the best of the worst, with 293+ of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker, including some of the magazine's most recognizable talents--like Roz Chast, Sam Gross, and David Sipress, plus some of its brightest new stars like Amy Hwang, Amy Kurzweil, Ellis Rosen, and Hallie Bateman, showing off their dark side, their naughty side, their juvenile side. It's hilarious.They’re back: the funniest cartoons you’ll never see in The New Yorker. Now in its second edition, The Best of the Rejection Collection has 20% new cartoons, new contributors, and a new introduction by the author―all now in a more compact trim size. But not everything’s changed―the new edition keeps 100% of the genius-without-restraint quality that caused Eustace Tilley to hold his nose and turn away when these cartoons were originally submitted. It doesn’t matter if the artist is
