The making of Hitchcock's The birds

In his most innovative and technically challenging film, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock follows the success of Psycho with a modernist, avant garde horror-thriller, which has spawned many imitators and triggered the cycle for disaster and man versus nature films.

Now to mark The Birds' 50th anniversary in 2013 and the digitally restored Blu-Ray release, The Making of Hitchcocks The Birds is the first book-length treatment on the production of this modernist masterpiece.

Featuring new interviews with stars Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren and Veronica Cartwright, as well as sketches and storyboards from Hitchcocks A-List technical team, Robert Boyle, Albert Whitlock and Harold Michelson, the book charts every aspect of the films production all set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and JFKs presidency.

Using unpublished material from the Alfred Hitchcock Collection, Evan Hunter files, Peggy Robertson papers and Robert Boyles artwork, this book will be the ultimate guide to Hitchcocks most ambitious film.