Re: JCO: Hitchcock
Hi Eric:
I didn't get a chance to reply to this until now. I heard that interview, too, and found her remarks about the Hitchcock biography to be the most interesting part (most of the time, she seemed to be trying to evade dealing with what she admitted were Silberblatt's very well-considered questions). I wonder if an important reason for why JCO decided not to write the Hitchcock biography when in the past she's written about such disgusting fictional characters as QP in "Zombie" is because perhaps she accepted the Hitchcock project in the first place out of admiration for his art, and assumed that there would be at least something minimally admirable about how he produced his art. She would have had the opportunity then to become disillusioned with Hitchcock in a way that she would never feel toward one of her fictional characters, where she would know at least generally from the beginning what sort of person the character would be, and would feel more or less in control of that character. Perhaps writing the story was a way of asserting this control after the fact?
Steve
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