Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Film: Sound in Hitchcock's The Birds April 15, 2013

Dr. Richard Allen is an internationally known authority of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His talk will focus on the use of sound in Hitchcock’s masterpiece of suspense, The Birds (1963). He is the author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony (Columbia University Press, 2007) and three edited collections—Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (BFI, 1999), Hitchcock: Past and Future (Routledge, 2004) with Sam Ishii-Gonzales, and The Hitchcock Annual Anthology (Wallflower Press, 2009) with Sid Gottlieb. Allen is chair of cinema studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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