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

-- 
Man is the only [creature] that kills for fun;
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.

				-- Mark Twain




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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