Hitchcock and Hume Revisited: Fear, Confusion and Stage Fright John Orr May 2007 Alfred Hitchcock Revisited, Special Dossiers “This essay is a return to the scene of the crime.” The author of Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema re-evaluates his low opinion of Stage Fright, and discovers that the affinities between Hitchcock’s cinema and the philosopher David Hume run far deeper than he had first imagined.
The Sixties, the Thriller and the Judge Richard Franklin May 2007 Alfred Hitchcock Revisited, Special Dossiers Alfred Hitchcock had plans to develop a project titled No Bail for the Judge, but when that faulted he turned his attention to Psycho … and changed the course of the thriller genre.
Alfred Hitchcock and John Buchan: The Art of Creative Transformation Tony Williams May 2007 Alfred Hitchcock Revisited, Special Dossiers Alfred Hitchcock’s film of John Buchan’s novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was one of his most successful, and he repeatedly used the story template in other films, such as North by Northwest. But Hitchcock showed little empathy for Buchan’s ideology.
