I must say I am glad Gloria has said something in this regard. I teach a
methods course that includes library research, and I would be quite angry if
my students circumvented the process of proper library research in this
manner. I also get frustrated when full-fledged academics (generally but not
always newbies to the field of film and media studies) post a question when
they have obviously done little or nothing on their own to initiate research
into the area about which they are seeking information.
I am more than willing to help out when people are doing research in an area
about which I feel I know something, but I do expect a scholar (or in this
case a student) to do his or her own part before coming to the list for
assistance. We are all extremely busy, and I try not to be too busy to help,
but I am way too busy to do other people's work for them.
--
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Queenıs University
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On 10-10-31 4:06 PM, "godard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> does anybody else on this list find this undergraduate request
> troubling? with a simple click of a key, this kid gained access to the
> research that his professor expected peter to do himself. i believe that
> encouraging this kind of behavior fosters intellectual laziness. instead of
> finding kapsis's book *at the library* and read it, now a student can just
> e-mail kapsis himself and hit him up for ideas. or even access bentley's
> yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.
> another example of how professors are turning into their customers'
> (formerly known as students) servants. what's next?
>
> gloria monti
>
> gloria monti, ph.d.
> assistant professor
> radio-TV-film
> CSUF, fullerton, CA
> [log in to unmask]
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ian Brookes
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/2010 10:23 PM, Peter Longworth wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm an undergraduate student studying Cultural and Media Studies at
>>> the University of Newcastle, Australia. The reason I am writing is I
>>> have a major essay on Alfred Hitchcock as an auteur, and to make my
>>> essay more interesting I'd like to locate articles / books which
>>> criticise Hitchcock somewhat negatively. I've been directed to
>>> criticism from feminist scholars, but was wondering where else I
>>> should be looking, and if anyone could please recommend any articles
>>> where I may concentrate my study.
>>>
>>> Apart from the feminist angle, I know of a couple of articles written
>>> by Andrew Sarris who comments on Hitchcock's films not being taken
>>> seriously in the 1960s because they weren't considered serious films
>>> like what the European directors were making such as Antonioni and
>>> Bergmann.
>>>
>>> Other place I could go with my essay is for Hitchcock's use of
>>> violence in Frenzy - I actually find the strangle scenes today pretty
>>> disturbing, and I understand critical reception to the film's use of
>>> violence was mixed. I think Rope might have been criticised also from
>>> a moralistic point of view. There is also Hitchcock's attack on
>>> religion in his films, such as the Catholic church, in how he
>>> represents / shows nuns in Vertigo, which is the key film i'll be
>>> discussing in my paper.
>>>
>>> I hope someone might be able to recommend me to resources articles
>>> giving a negative criticism, or mixed criticism of Hitchcock, because
>>> mostly everyone says positive things about his films. I seek to make
>>> my essay a mixture of positive and negative criticisms.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Peter
>>
>>
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