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22 Nov 2024

Just Do It: Notes on Incitement with Reference to the Case of Danvers Vs de Winter

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Joan Fontaine as Mrs de Winter and Judith Anderson  as Mrs Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) [a]     I.    As a provocateur, I'...
19 Nov 2024

Memories of Manderley 2: On Pyrexia and Obsessive Love Disorder

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Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson) displays the see-through nature  of Rebecca's nightdress to the new Mrs de Winter (Joan Fontaine)  in Rebe...
18 Nov 2024

Memories of Manderley 1: On Natural Chaos and Maxim de Winter's Floraphilia

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Top: Manderley in ruins (chaos reigns) Bottom: Maxim de Winter (uxoricide and floraphile)     I.    Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley ...
26 Nov 2022

Name That Tune

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Tom O'Connor and his two lovely assistants host another edition of  Name That Tune (Thames Television, 1976-1988)     Question 1: Can y...
20 Jul 2020

All Aboard! On D. H. Lawrence and Trains

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Ian McKellen as D. H. Lawrence and Janet Suzman  as Frieda Lawrence aboard a train in Priest of Love   (dir. Christopher Miles, 1981) ...
5 Feb 2019

Notes on 'The Birds' by Daphne du Maurier

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Cover to the Virago 2004 edition Illustration by Jamie Keenan For many people 'The Birds' (1952) is Daphne du Maurier...
2 May 2018

Reflections on the Death Mask (With Reference to the Case of L'Inconnue de la Seine)

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  L'Inconnue de la Seine  (c. late-1880s)  A favourite pin-up of necrophiles I. How Even the Dead Can Continue to Make a...
10 Mar 2017

On Fast Food and Film Theory

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Everyone knows what an Egg McMuffin is: a delicious combination of egg, bacon and melted cheese inside a toasted English muffin, it...
25 Mar 2016

On Sexual Apathy and the Case of Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps

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Pamela looks at Hannay as she removes her stockings -  but he only has eyes for his sandwich. Commentators often note the frigi...

On Women and Fish in The 39 Steps

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Lucie Mannheim as Annabella Smith and Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps  (1935) Starring a very dashing R...
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5 Jun 2015

Of Birds and Blondes (and One Fat Film Director)

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  The recent spate of attacks by crows on young blonde women jogging in a South London park, has once again highlighted the fascinating re...
20 May 2015

The Case of Leopold and Loeb

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The shocking case of Leopold and Loeb continues to haunt the cultural (and criminal) imagination - not least of all when one has just r...