WET OFF THE PRESS!!!
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room!
Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest , award-winning writer, performer, theatre-maker and workshop leader Adam Robinson for this deep dive episode into what is often referred to as the first true Hitchcock film.
We carry out our own wet off the press investigations, discussing the film in detail as well as exploring new readings of the McGuffin, Gothicism, bringing danger into the domestic and the beauty of Ivor Novello ….
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You can find Adam Robinson on the following platforms:
X: @Adam_Zed
Instagram: @adam__zed
Website: Adam Z. Robinson (adamzrobinson.com)
Find Rebecca and her work on X and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
References
The Lodger (1927)-dir Alfred Hitchcock
Literature Film Quarterly (1983)-Hitchcock’s The Lodger-Lesley W. Brill
Early Hitchcock: The German Influence-Hitchcock Annual-(1999)-Sidney Gottleib
Working with Hitchcock-Sight and Sound (1980)-Ivor Montagu
Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut Interview-(1962)-The Lodger
The Lodger and the Aesthetic Origins (2001)-Richard Allen
Action-Bob Thomas and Alfred Hitchcock The German Years (1973)-TV Interview
The Haunted Screen-(2008)-Lottie Eisner
Undertones of Expressionism in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger (youtube.com)-IUCinema
Hitchcock’s Heroines-(2018) Caroline Young
The Times Review-January 1927
To-Night Golden Curls, Murder and Mimesis (2013)- Sanford Schwartz
Doubles and Doubts in Hitchcock The German Connection in Hitchcock Past and Future edited by Richard Allen and Sam Ishii-Gonzales (2004)-Bettina Rosenbladt