Thanks & Bio
Interest in the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock was initially kindled by Gerald Wilson and Alan Bernstein’s inspired lectures at the London Film School in the early 1990s, an interest that was soon substantiated in formal research as undertaken from 1993 to 1995 on the other side of Oxford Street, this time at the Institute of Education. Gratitude therefore extends to the luminaries of these two institutions, particularly David Buckingham and Robert Ferguson of the Department of Culture, Language and Communication, University of London.
Appreciations also extend to friends and colleagues who have shared, sustained and extended my own enthusiasms in both film, theatre and literature – namely Una Harbord, Viscount Raymond Astley, David Oxley MA, and, peering into the vertiginous past, Keele University Senior Lecturers in English Literature, Roger Pooley and Jim McClaverty.
In addition, no Jacobean confusion frustrates my indebtness to enduring first-row supporters Martin Carollchick MA, Kevin Robinson MA, Philip Avery and Gerald O’ Kane for their continued friendships and timely encouragements.
Gratitude extends to Angelika Wagner of Dresden, Dr. Benjamin Kloss of Peter Lang, Berlin, Uta Orluc of the Deutsche Filmothek, Film Museum of Berlin, and Sir David Armstrong Close, UK.
Final drafting sadly coincided with the untimely passing of Charles Swann, Fellow and Reader in American Studies at the University of Keele. If there was a guiding spirit that might have prompted its 1993 beginnings and then certainly urged its 2007 completion, I’d like to think it was his. His celebrated “sharp, rigorous, deeply humanistic teaching” (Eagleton, 2006) was often, and will continue to be, the most challenging and most lasting of inspirations.
Final appreciation in life, study and work is reserved for Diana who, in this instance, nudged dormant research findings from one millennium towards a, hopefully, more meaningful purpose in the next.
Dedication
The book is dedicated to Alicia, Lee, Scott, Rada, Corey and Deniza, and to William John Taylor & Anne Marie Taylor, in wonderment for all that they achieved in their real lives.
Alan Taylor, January 17th 2007, Berlin E: a.taylor@balliol.oxon.org
BIO:
Alan Taylor has extensive UK lecturing and managerial curriculum experience in Anglo-American Literature, Media Production, Film Studies and Screenwriting. Through KINOWORDS these have extended to include University Guest Lecturing courses (Germany and Eastern Europe); public initiatives in film & media praxis (Cinemasports, USA, Inter-Space Arts, Bulgaria, the Filmhaus Frankfurt/Main); and research & publication initiatives (“We, the media…”, 2005, Peter Lang, pp. 418).
Dr. Taylor, a third generation descendant of the Irish diaspora of the 1930s, is a joint hons. graduate of Keele University, with postgraduate degrees from the University of London and The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
He is also an alumni of both the London Film School and the Department of Educational Studies, the University of Oxford. He is currently Guest Lecturer in Film Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, the Freie University of Berlin.
And Now…?
Extract from Chapter One: jv-extract-ch-1.pdf & Intro Overview is here: http://jacobeanvisions.edublogs.org/the-book/
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