Of course, Hitchcock had some help building his reputation as a one-man show. Writing in the influential French publication Cahiers du cinéma, Claude Chabrol and in particular François Truffaut championed Hitchcock as an exemplar of auteur theory, the idea that the director is the author of a film. Their efforts were quite successful. By the time Hitchock died in 1980, his standing as a master planner was firmly established and went unchallenged in his obituaries. (The New York Times noted that, "before filming" Hitchcock personally "drew precise sketches of every scene, meticulously listing each camera angle.") But a new exhibition at Northwestern's Block Museum suggests that Hitchcock was in fact a deeply collaborative artist. The man who put a face to auteur theory—and whose face was used to advertise films as no director's had been before—relied heavily on his staff to create what we think of as the distinctive Hitchcock style.