St Mary’s to Hold Free Public Lecture on Alfred Hitchcock

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock will be the focus of a free public lecture to be held at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham on Tuesday 16^th April. St Mary’s School of Communication, Culture and Creative Arts (CCCA) is holding a lecture entitled ‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Untold Story’. It will be presented by Prof Charles Barr, a world authority on Hitchcock and a Professorial Research Fellow in CCCA.  A new British Film Institute (BFI) Classics edition of his study on the classic Hitchcock film Vertigo was published last year and was recently featured in the Radio Times. Alfred Hitchcock is subject to more academic study that any other auteur figure in film history. However, the lecture looks at parts of his career which are still being explored, including his early years in the UK before he signed his first film as director in 1926. The lecture will look at new perspectives on his work from this period, drawing upon ongoing American and British research. Prof Barr’s current project, Hitchcock, Lost and Found has been co-authored by Parisian scholar Alain Kerzoncuf and due for publication later this year. He has also taught at the University of East Anglia, as well as holding visiting professor posts in Dublin, Galway and St Louis, USA. The free public lecture is being held at 7pm on Tuesday 16^th April at St Mary’s Strawberry Hill campus. For more information please contact Professor Lance Pettitt lance.pettitt@stmarys.ac.uk