Monday Morning Essential Reading: DeRosa on Vertigo

Samuel A. Taylor, screenwriter

A great way to start the week and, by all means, a great to re-visit the story of Vertigo's writing is today's post A Month of Vertigo.  Steven DeRosa, author of Writing with Hitchcock, blogs about Samuel Taylor's impact on Vertigo and his working relationship with Hitchcock.  Steven very kindly recommends my book, and i would in turn insist that you read his book which is the on understanding how Hitchcock worked.  My books on Vertigo and Hitchcock's working methods (Hitchcock's Notebooks, 1999) spend only a chapter or so on what is really at the heart of Hitch's genius--that gold time he spent with a writer dreaming the film.  Steven's work is and will remain the standard-bearer when it comes to this essential aspect of Hitchcock's life and career.

Links to today's Month of Vertigo blog and to the Kindle version of Steven's book, as well as his connected virtual communities, follow.

An Inconsequential Yarn at Lady Eve's Reel Life A Month of Vertigo.

Steven DeRosa's Facebook page and his comments on today's cinema (and Hitchcock) can be followed on twitter @WriteHitchcock.

Steven's book Writing with Hitchcock is available on Kindle for download today, this moment, right now--so what are you waiting for--click that glowing book title and buy the thing already!