Dear Frank
Thank you very much for your message.
Firstly, I sincerely apologise if I have offended
you and the other people reading this forum. I
have conducted research of my own on the essay
topic - I've been collecting journal articles
over the course of the last three-four weeks and
I am familiar with library research methods - I
do work in a library and help people to do search
the various databases / catalogues. Maybe I
should have quoted more of the work I had covered
in myinitial message to demonstrate I am not
attempting to cheat the system. My aim of using
the resource of this board wasn't too ask members
not to spend hours helping me, rather helping
direct me to articles I might not have covered, in one or two lines.
Again, if you feel I have ethically violated the
way I have gone about gathering extra research
for this assignment, I sincerely apologise to you
and the contributors who actively post and read
to this board. It was not my intention to let
people do the work for me - I can do that myself,
merely to dig a little deeper and try to locate what I haven't already found.
To the people who have been able to assist me I
would like to extend a warm thank you. I feel I
have enough extra information to extend my
arguments on the deficiency Hitchcock brings to many of his films.
Regards
Peter
At 02:42 AM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
>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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>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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