ALFRED HITCHCOCK cinema is a dream. Perhaps, all the movies of Mr. Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) are dreams. Art as a tool of the oneiric, which crosses the most recondite thresholds of the mind to reveal the deepest and unspeakable feelings.
Hitchcock didn’t want to illustrate arguments. He always tried to imagining stories made only of images, trusting everything to the meaning of those images, challenged us to decipher dreams, his dreams, the language he conceived.
Agreed on this fundamental point, we delve into the analysis of each and everyone of Hitchcock’s films, as dreams materialized in images that explore the vagaries of human behavior and address difficult moral conflicts resolution. We look there for the key, the main artistic heritage of the filmmaker, one of the greatest in Cinema.
And in the search, we also analyze how his work is traced to his heirs, in contemporary movies, facing the evidence that Hitchcock is, definitely, all times most influential director.
A book, in short, that presents a look at his work from the prism of the 21st century and that, to this day, continues to be fully in force, admired by old and new generations.
SERGI GRAU Nació el 17 de junio de 1976, en Barcelona. Abogado penalista y ensayista. Colaborador habitual en publicaciones sobre cine y webs especializadas, es coautorde Barbara Stanwyck: una gran señora de Hollywood (T&B, 2015), y ha participado en diversos libros colectivos como los de Peter Jackson, celestiales y monstruosas (Tyrannosaurus Books, 2014), The Twilight Zone (Scifiworld, 2011 / Applehead Team, 2021), Cine fantástico y de terror español, volúmenes I y II (T&B, 2015-16), Mad Doctors. El sueño de la razón (T&B, 2017) o M. Night Shyamalan, cineasta de cristal (Ed. Almuzara, 2019). Además figura como el coordinador del volumen Richard Matheson: maestro de la paranoia (Gigamesh, 2016). Desde 2008 gestiona el blog Voice Over (http://sergimgrau.wordpress.com), consagrado al ensayo cinematográfico de cine de todos los tiempos, con más de un millar de entradas.
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SERGI GRAU Barcelona, 1976. Lawyer and essayist. Regular contributor to publications about cinema and specialized websites, is co-author of Barbara Stanwyck: A Great Lady of Hollywood (T&B, 2015), Barbara Stanwyck: una gran señora de Hollywood (T&B, 2015), and has participated in various collective books such as Peter Jackson, celestiales y monstruosas (Tyrannosaurus Books, 2014), The Twilight Zone (Scifiworld, 2011 / Applehead Team, 2021), Cine fantástico y de terror español, volúmenes I y II (T&B, 2015-16), Mad Doctors. El sueño de la razón (T&B, 2017) or M. Night Shyamalan, cineasta de cristal (Ed. Almuzara, 2019). He was also The coordinator of the essay Richard Matheson: Maestro de la Paranoia (Gigamesh, 2016). Since 2008, he manages the blog Voice Over (http://sergimgrau.wordpress.com ), dedicated to the essay of cinema of all time, with more than one thousand entries.
