I find nothing wrong with the student's  eagerness to  reach out to this
list.  We (faculty)  regularly  chat with our students - yes-undergraduates!
- and share information.  In fact, we think rather highly of them for
hanging out with us.



Eleni

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 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 yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.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:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
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> > Sender:       Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
> > Poster:       Ian Brookes <[log in to unmask]>
> > 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 Much, The 39 Steps, North by North-West, etc) had become superseded with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
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf
> > Of George Robinson [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 2:54 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Negative criticism on Alfred Hitchcock as an
> auteur
> >
> > 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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