[Online] 7 pm Tuesday, September 27th
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock with Brian Rose
Join us online for a Virtual Presentation with Brian Rose, Professor Emeritus, Fordham University. Sponsored by the Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, and Chilmark Libraries. Contact your local library for the Zoom access, or for more information.
Alfred Hitchcock is probably the most famous film director who ever lived. For five decades, first in England, then in Hollywood, he made fifty-four films, including classics such as The Thirty-Nine Steps, Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Psycho. Few filmmakers have been as popular, critically celebrated, and as influential, not only as a director but also as a multi-media showman through his television series, magazines, book anthologies, even extending to board games and record albums. This presentation looks at his achievements as “the master of suspense,” and through dozens of film clips, examines his extraordinary creativity as one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers.
Brian Rose is a retired college professor who for the last decade has been presenting talks on film and TV history to libraries and community organizations. He is a professor emeritus at Fordham University, where he taught for 38 years in the Department of Communication and Media Studies. He’s written several books on television history and cultural programming, and conducted more than a hundred Q&A’s with leading directors, actors, and writers for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Directors Guild of America.
Pre-event at Oak Bluffs Library On Tuesday September 20th at 6pm OBPL will host an in-person screening of North by Northwest, a 1959 American spy thriller produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
Stream at Home Several of Hitchcock's films can also be viewed online for free through the library's Kanopy service, including Dial M for Murder, Foreign Correspondent, and The Lady Vanishes.
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