tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post116369936779849710..comments2024-03-21T04:11:40.462-07:00Comments on Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: Is Hitchcock (or Welles) Necessary?Chris Caglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-1164025117595100532006-11-20T04:18:00.000-08:002006-11-20T04:18:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-1163784754849417072006-11-17T09:32:00.000-08:002006-11-17T09:32:00.000-08:00Some some reason scholars and even lecturers of fi...<I>Some some reason scholars and even lecturers of film Studies fail to criticise Hitchcock and raise him above god in classes.</I><BR/><BR/>That's only half-true. A sizeable body of feminist scholarship, for instance, has criticized Hitchcock and argued explicitly against "genius" pedagogy. C.f. Tania Modleski's book on Hitchcock. And, in general, there's been a move away from Hitchcock in the scholarship over the last two decades.<BR/><BR/>The thing is, in introductory classes, a film appreciation mentality of a certain sort still takes hold. <BR/><BR/>That said, I probably agree that hagiography can end up impoverishing our understanding of art despite its intentions.Chris Caglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11896423565458620046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-1163760673800016762006-11-17T02:51:00.000-08:002006-11-17T02:51:00.000-08:00Some some reason scholars and even lecturers of fi...Some some reason scholars and even lecturers of film Studies fail to criticise Hitchcock and raise him above god in classes. for any student to be objective its important he is able to critise the piece of art work effectively and i am yet to come across a person who does that to hitchcock.Deepshikhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623352621519971299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30690257.post-1163706639686160322006-11-16T11:50:00.000-08:002006-11-16T11:50:00.000-08:00That's great! What a cerebral look at a man as he...That's great! What a cerebral look at a man as he relates to a field of study. When I think Film Study I think core, fundamentals, roots. I think Eisenstein and other Rusky inventors of montage, I think D.W. Grifith and his disscovery / invention of the 180 degree rule. I think Hitchcock too, but only as it relates to German Expressionism translated to the common denomiator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com