Author Archive for: ‘Ken Mogg’
Will and wilfulness: recent commentary on Hitchcock’s The Birds
Uploaded 1 March 2001 Preliminary reading [B]irds seem to combine the absence of emotion with irrational drive and therefore epitomize blind nature in contradistinction to the human, and this makes them ideal figures for those forces which are destructive of human social life. – Richard Allen [1] The third reading that is offered by Wood and Zizek is the “familial” …
Read More“The 39 Steps”. A British Film Guide
Mark Glancy, “The 39 Steps”. A British Film Guide. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002 ISBN : 1 860 64614 X 128pp £12.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by I.B Tauris) The author of this often stimulating monograph is a lecturer in History and Film at Queen Mary, University of London. Indirectly at least, his “guide” owes a debt to Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock …
Read MoreThe Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Jacobs, The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 6450 637 6 €29.50 (pb) 344pp (Review copy supplied by 010 Publishers) ‘Authoritative’ is how I would describe this book. Steven Jacobs, an art historian, lectures on film history at Sint Lukas College of Art, Brussels, and the Academy of Fine Arts in …
Read MoreReframing British Cinema 1919-1928. Between Restraint and Passion
Christine Gledhill, Reframing British Cinema 1919-1928. Between Restraint and Passion. London: BFI Publishing, 2003.ISBN: 0 85170 889 7 214pp UK£17.99(pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) I anticipate some difficulty reviewing Professor Gledhill’s revisionist study of British cinema. For one thing, much of her raw material is “new”: it consists of 150-odd films, many of which, I take it, have …
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