Introduction to Trouble with Harry
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
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12m
Sidney Gottlieb gives an introduction to Hitchcock's "Trouble with Harry" (1955).
Sidney Gottlieb is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits the Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. His publications on Hitchcock include two volumes of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews" (University of California Press, 1995; 2015), "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" (co-edited with Christopher Brookhouse; Wayne State University Press, 2002); "The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15" (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and the forthcoming "Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now" (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).
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