Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Na Pita Ackroyd i tuhi. (Chatto & Windus £ 12.99. Ma tenei koiora koiora, poto me te tino pai, ka whakapumautia e Ackroyd te hiranga o Victorian me Edwardian London i roto i te whakaaro o Alfred Hitchcock <unk> te <unk> pango poke o te East End; te <unk> ruffianism maha <unk> o te Cockneys; nga paamu, maakete huarahi, whare tapere me nga whare puoro, me a raatau <unk> mahi momo, dioramas me nga opera Itari. I whanau a Alfred Hitchcock (i te pikitia) i te tau 1899 i Leytonstone, East London. I tua atu i te mea whakamiharo, ko te taone he waahi me nga arawhata pouri, he rama penehi, he ua me nga huarahi whakawehi: te waahi pai mo te kohuru. I whanau a Hitchcock i te tau 1899 i Leytonstone, East London, te tama a te kaihokohoko nui. He whānau Katorika rātau, nō Ireland i takea mai, ā, ko te tamaiti ka noho hei "tetahi o ngā kaiwhakahaere rongonui o te ao" i whakaakona e ngā Hēhuwiti. I whakaakona pea e ngā Kaumātua Karaitiana whakatoi <unk>te pai o te raupapa, te mana me te tika<unk>, engari i whakauruhia hoki e rātau (me te whitiki) he whakapono ki te mea ngaro me ngā merekara. Ko te arorau me te take, i honoa ki te ahua o te manukanuka, te wehi me te whakapae paranoid, i uru ki roto i te mahi a Hitchcock: "I whakaaro ia kei te mahi katoa i tetahi mea tinana me te kino i muri i nga tatau kati". I a ia e titiro whakamuri ana ki ona ra kura, i kii ia, i te mea i whakawehi nga Jesuits i a ia, "I tenei wa kei te whakahoki ahau i taku ake ma te whakamataku i etahi atu tangata". Kāre a Hitchcock i te āhua o te peita hinu. He 5 ft 7 i roto i te Humpty Dumpty, ko ia te tamaiti ngako neurotic ki kanohi piggy, i whakakiia ki te "lavish me peculiar" fantasies sex repressed. Ko tana mahi katoa, e kii ana a Ackroyd, he rangahau mo te voyeurism, te tutu me te hara, i tetahi taha, te raupatu me te kohuru o nga wahine rawakore, a, i tetahi atu, te whai i tetahi toa i whakapaehia mo nga hara kaore ia i mahi. Ko tana mahi tuatahi, i te tau 1927, Ko te Lodger, e pā ana ki tētahi tangata i whakapaehia he hē ko Jack The Ripper, ā, kua taea kē e Hitchcock te whakaoho i tētahi huru o te "raru me te tūtohu", te kāmera e noho ana i runga i ngā "raru pōro e whiti ana...
I whanau a Alfred Hitchcock i te tau 1899 i Leytonstone, East London. I muri mai ka noho ia hei <unk> tētahi o ngā kaiwhakahaere rongonui o te ao. Engari ka tīmata ōna pōharatanga ki te uru atu ki roto i tana mahi whakaata. I kii te kaiwhakaari a Tippi Hedren i tetahi wa "Kua tata ia ki ahau"