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Hitchcock in London: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage”
In the last week of our Hitchcock in London book club, we examine "Sabotage," (1936) the film he adapted from Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" (1907). The film makes...
View EventHitchcock in London: Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent”
Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" follows a group of anarchists in London near the end of the 19th century as they plot to destroy symbols of Victorian England....
View EventHitchcock in London: The Film, The Lodger
In week 2 of our book club, we will discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel "The Lodger." "The Lodger" was the first film Hitchcock directed...
View EventHitchcock in London: The Lodger
We begin by reading Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel "The Lodger," which was published in 1913 and became an immediate, worldwide hit, selling more than one million copies in the...
View EventLiterature & Film in Lockdown – Camus, “The Plague”
Albert Camus’s novel "The Plague" (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 1940s, in the...
View EventLiterature & Film in Lockdown – Hitchcock, “Rear Window” (film)
Although Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" (1954) does not take place in the context of a plague, it is a film about being in lockdown. Its preoccupations may be subtly shaped by...
View EventLiterature & Film in Lockdown – Boccaccio, “The Decameron” (Introduction & First Story)
The bubonic plague (“Black Death”), which arrived in Italy from China in 1347, killed between a third and half of the Eurasian population. In Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"...
View EventLiterature & Film in Lockdown – Introduction: Literature and Plague
This week Professor Barry McCrea introduces the topic of the course by taking a long historical perspective on pandemics in society. Mass outbreaks of contagious illness have been...
View EventTechnology Ethics Conference 2020: Panel 2
The Technology Ethics Center at Notre Dame convenes global thought leaders in academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies to develop ethical and legal...
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