The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. The Good evening. I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to another edition of The History of Literature. And the Okay, here we go. Hello everyone, welcome to the podcast. We have a fun one today, the

return of Mike Palindrome after many months. He and I go through

one of our long time passions, the films of Alfred Hitchcock. We choose the 10 best Hitchcock films. That's coming up soon. So why

Alfred Hitchcock and why now? The now is easy. It's October.

October is the perfect Alfred Hitchcock month.

When the leaves are starting to turn and the wind is starting to pick up

and it's getting dark a little early.

When my son was little, he asked me why it was so dark out in October and I said,

ah yes, it's because it's October and in October, it gets dark early.

And he said, dark early is not a word.

Well, maybe it should be. There's dark and there's darkly. And for

Alfred Hitchcock, there's darkerly. There's also a lightness of touch, there's suspense, there's an exposure of the

twisted side of humanity, but there's also humor. He's closer to Agatha Christie than Stephen King on the scale of

in your face thrills. He's going to excite you. He's not going to turn your stomach. Put it that way. And as I've

grown up I've come to view him as a supreme filmmaker right there with Wells and

Scorsese and and Kubrick and Ford and Kurosawa and whoever else you want to choose for your pantheon.

When he was doing it well, Alfred Hitchcock, there's no one who did his particular kind of movie better.

They still hold up.

They're still a fountain of pleasure, they're still a source of deep admiration. They're like the best late

19th and 20th century paintings, the Monaise and Van Gogh's and Picassos and Pollocks

and Rothkoos hanging there to inspire our contemplation

to absorb our reverence and awe to give us something to take home with us to consider. I love Alfred Hitchcock

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