I must say I am glad Gloria has said something in this regard. I teach a methods course that includes library research, and I would be quite angry if my students circumvented the process of proper library research in this manner. I also get frustrated when full-fledged academics (generally but not always newbies to the field of film and media studies) post a question when they have obviously done little or nothing on their own to initiate research into the area about which they are seeking information. I am more than willing to help out when people are doing research in an area about which I feel I know something, but I do expect a scholar (or in this case a student) to do his or her own part before coming to the list for assistance. We are all extremely busy, and I try not to be too busy to help, but I am way too busy to do other people's work for them. -- Frank Burke, PhD Professor, Department of Film and Media Queenıs University Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613 533-2178 Fax: 613 533-2063 In Italy: Viale Castracani, 282 Lucca 55100 Italia Tel: (011 39) 0583 49 17 73 Cell: (011 39) 334 711 3261 On 10-10-31 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 yet unpublished work -- and therefore unprotected by copyright.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: > >> 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