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yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.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
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ian Brookes
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> Subject:      Re: Negative criticism on Alfred Hitchcock as an auteur
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> Another good place to look is Robert E Kapsis's Hitchcock: The Making of a
> Reputation. This is full of interesting instances of the shifts in
> Hitchcock's critical reputation. RK talks about a film like Torn Curtain,
> for example, which was quite poorly reviewed at the time because Hitch's
> reputation as a "master" of the espionage thriller (The Man Who Knew Too
> Much, The 39 Steps, North by North-West, etc) had become superseded with the
> advent of James Bond since 1960 and its impact on the genre. To many
> critics, Torn Curtain appeared outmoded in comparison. - Ian Brookes
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> If you can find Raymond Durgnat's Hitchcock book, he has some
> interesting and quirky things to say about the director, stuff that
> would certainly leaven your thesis.
>
> George Robinson
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> he is the only one that kills in malice, the only
> one that kills for revenge [. . .] He is the only
> creature that has a nasty mind.
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> 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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