To Louie Rayner.  Someone is going to point you to exactly what you're
seeking, I'm sure.  Meanwhile, you might like to read my Schopenhaurean
analysis of Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, which inadvertently alludes to Kant's
position at many points, and to Schopenhauer's critique and modification
of it.  Again inadvertently, in reading about Schopenhauer like this,
you may be drawn, however briefly, and temporarily, from the invidious
path of scholarship (I nearly put that last word in quotes!) which like
an invisible force field (cf FORBIDDEN PLANET) precludes would-be
attempts to read beyond the received wisdom, and to perceive what others
(such as the mighty Schopenahuer) were saying in their own right, on
their own terms.  Of course, all I'm suggesting here is that
Schopenhauer is extremely relevant to the present age (and any age), and
in particular a major filmmaker like Alfred Hitchcock, and that Kant may
be rather less so in some particulars.

- Ken Mogg (author of the uncut UK edition of 'The Alfred Hitchcock
Story' - I disown the cut and 'simplified' US version).
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin

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