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Hitchcock 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...
Hitchcock 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...
Hitchcock 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....
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...
Everyday Holiness: Lou Holtz
“Significance is when you help other people be successful, and when you do that, that lasts many a lifetime.” Catch up with former Notre Dame Head Football Coach Lou Holtz as...
Everyday Holiness: Fr. Pete McCormick, CSC
“It is by the grace of God that I have continued to this point, and that is increasingly what I need to rely upon in order to continue this vocation.” Fr. Pete McCormick, CSC,...
Literature & 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...
Literature & 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"...
Literature & 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...
Literature & 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...
Religious Pluralism
Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of other religious traditions. Our hosts convene in this...
Everyday Holiness: Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C.
“God is not just someone to make intellectual assent to in our minds but someone to encounter into the depths of our heart. And if we are not able to make that migration, then...