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 yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.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 > > ----------------------- > > 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 Much, The 39 Steps, North by North-West, etc) had become superseded with 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] > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu