: Truffaut offers more dispassionate critiques in this edition, discussing Hitchcock’s disappointment with the reception of Marnie and the "bungled" production of Topaz .
In August 1962, young French New Wave director François Truffaut sat down with Alfred Hitchcock at his Universal Studios bungalow for 50 hours of intensive interviews. Hitchcock (Revised Edition)
The book serves as a "cookbook" for filmmaking, detailing Hitchcock's signature techniques: : Truffaut offers more dispassionate critiques in this
The 1985 revised edition is noted for being more measured and insightful than the original. Hitchcock (Revised Edition)
: The revised version features improved graphics, film stills, and excerpts from Hitchcock’s sketchbooks and storyboards. Core Cinematic Concepts Explored