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Back to SearchHitchcock in London, Part 1: The Lodger
Season 1 Episode 5
Episode Topic: "The Lodger"
We begin by reading Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel "The Lodger," which was published in 1913 and became an immediate, worldwide hit, selling more than one million copies in t…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Hitchcock in London, Part 3: Joseph Conrad’s "The Secret Agent"
Season 1 Episode 7
Episode Topic: Joseph Conrad’s "The Secret Agent"
Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" follows a group of anarchists in London near the end of the 19th century as they plot to destroy symbols of V…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Hitchcock in London, Part 4: Alfred Hitchcock’s "Sabotage"
Season 1 Episode 8
Episode Topic: Alfred Hitchcock’s "Sabotage"
In the last week of our Hitchcock in London book club, we examine "Sabotage," (1936) the film he adapted from Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" (190…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Literature & Film in Lockdown, Part 1: Introduction, Literature and Plague
Season 1 Episode 1
Episode Topic: Introduction, Literature and Plague
This week Professor Barry McCrea introduces the topic of the course by taking a long historical perspective on pandemics in society. Mass outbreaks o…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Literature & Film in Lockdown, Part 2: Boccaccio, "The Decameron" (Introduction & First Story)
Season 1 Episode 2
Episode Topic: Boccaccio, "The Decameron" (Introduction & First Story)
The bubonic plague (“Black Death”), which arrived in Italy from China in 1347, killed between a third and half of the Eurasian po…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Literature & Film in Lockdown, Part 3: Hitchcock, "Rear Window" (film)
Season 1 Episode 3
Episode Topic: Hitchcock, "Rear Window" (film)
Although Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" (1954) does not take place in the context of a plague, it is a film about being in lockdown. Its preoccupation…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Literature & Film in Lockdown, Part 4: Camus, "The Plague"
Season 1 Episode 4
Episode Topic: Camus, "The Plague"
Albert Camus’s novel "The Plague" (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 194…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago