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HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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23m
This talk uses new archival discoveries to reconstruct, for the first time, Selznick and Hitchcock’s planned remake of The Lodger, providing new insights into why the project fell apart.
Henry K. Miller is the author of "The First True Hitchcock," published by University of California Press in 2022. His other books are "The Essential Raymond Durgnat" (as editor) and "DWOSKINO: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin" (as co-editor). He is a critic for "Sight and Sound," and has written for publications including the "Times Literary Supplement" and "MUBI Notebook." He has taught film at the University of Cambridge. He teaches film at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.
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