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Season 1 Episode 6
Episode Topic: The Film of "The Lodger"
In week 2 of our book club, we will discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel…
5 years, 8 months ago
Hitchcock 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, worldw…
5 years, 8 months 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…
5 years, 8 months 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 …
5 years, 8 months 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 per…
5 years, 11 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, …
5 years, 11 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…
5 years, 11 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 th…
5 years, 11 months ago