Young and Innocent: Becoming Joanie and Hitchie
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
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14m
Hitchcock cited Young and Innocent (1937) as his personal favorite among his 23 British films.
Here, Lane reassess its lessons in love and lends insight into the creative relationship between Hitchcock and screenwriter-producer Joan Harrison, who was just coming into her own as his collaborator, helping determine their cinematic and professional lives for the next three decades.
Christina Lane is the bestselling, Edgar®-Award winning author of "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock." She is Professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami, where she teaches courses in film history, gender, and directors. Other publications include the books "Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break and Magnolia" as well as articles in "Cinema Journal," "Feminist Media Histories," the "Quarterly Review of Film and Television," "Cine-Files," and "The Journal of Popular Film and TV." She contributed essays on Alfred Hitchcock's collaborators Joan Harrison and Alma Reville to the volumes "Authorship and Film" (Routledge 2002) and "Hitchcock and Adaptation" (with Jo Botting, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She provides commentary for such outlets as the "Daily Mail," "CrimeReads" and "AirMail," and has been a featured guest speaker at the Film Forum, on NPR and on Turner Classic Movies.
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