Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a distinguished British and American film director, producer, and screenwriter, responsible for Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, and many others. He combined the discoveries of German Expressionism and the Soviet avant-garde, brought the art of editing to a new level, and reinvented genre cinema, becoming a master of suspense and horror. No one could frighten better than him. He surrounded himself with an aura of mystery and mysticism, becoming not just a director dubbed an "auteur" by French critics, but also a pop icon, the hero of his cinema. Rarely did his film go without a cameo from the director, a tiny role that Hitchcock played with his characteristic brilliance. In 1979, shortly before his death, Elizabeth II knighted the master. How did Hitchcock enter the history of cinema and how do his classic films look today?