----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >One of my pet theories, as a big dePalma fan, is that he has studies >Hitchcock so closely that he can reproduce the Maestros scenes shot by >shot. It is only Film Academics who see Hitch as a master and dePalma as >a hack. >Mikel Koven Actually, DePalma has been pretty well respected by academics (such as Robin Wood, who might be expected to react negatively) all along: film reviewers seem to be his worst critics -- though as far as I recall only J. Hoberman praised RAISING CAIN highly. My sense is that audiences now see Hitchcock as "the master of suspense" (a phrase my students can repeat without blinking an eye): academic critics now have a much more complex view of him (remember feminism??).