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 or even access bentley's yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.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 > ----------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 Much, The 39 Steps, North by North-West, etc) had become superseded with the 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 > > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]