Charles Barr on Hitchcock

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Channel: BFI · 2011 · Film & Animation

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Highlights from Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr's talk at the Researcher's Tales event at the BFI Library last December.  Here, he explores Hitchcock's formative years in silent cinema and his influences, including German Expressionist filmmakers, Russian film theorists and screenwriter Eliot Stannard.

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