Hitchcock Comes to Harlem: A Look at Where Topaz Sparkles
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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Topaz (1969) generally works better in parts than as a whole. But oh, those parts! One standout is the recreation of Castro’s 1962 stay at Harlem’s Hotel Theresa—a sequence that shows Hitchcock was not blind to the historic moment of Cuban revolutionaries establishing solidarity with Black Americans.
Elisabeth Karlin is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Elisabeth Karlin is an award-winning playwright living in New York. Her plays include "The Night the Ocean Met the Bay" (Next Stage Press); "The Showman and the Spirit" (Winner, 2017 Stanley Drama Award); "Hotbed" (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theatre Center) "Bodega Bay" (The Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus) and many more. A dedicated film buff, Elisabeth has been a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog, covering a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. An expanded version of her talk at HitchCon21 on "The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock" appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.
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