Charles Barr
Biography
Professor Charles Barr helped to found the Film Department at the University of East Anglia in the late 1970s. Since leaving UEA in 2006, he has worked in St Louis and in Ireland, and is currently a Professorial Research Fellow at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
Hitchcock Books
- All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema (1986) edited by Charles Barr
- English Hitchcock (2000) by Charles Barr
- Vertigo (2002) by Charles Barr (new edition published in 2012)
- Hitchcock Lost and Found: The Forgotten Films (2015) by Alain Kerzoncuf & Charles Barr
Book Chapters & Essays
- Desperate Yearnings: Victor Saville and Gainsborough
— in Gainsborough Pictures (1997) edited by Pam Cook - Writing screen plays: Stannard and Hitchcock
— in Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain: 1896-1930 (2002) edited by Andrew Higson - Blackmail: Charles Bennett and the Decisive Turn
— in Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter (2011) edited by R. Barton Palmer & David Boyd - Hitchcock and Early Filmmakers
— in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (2011) edited by Thomas Leitch & Leland Poague
Other Relevant Titles
- All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema (1986) edited by Charles Barr
Hitchcock Articles
- Screen (1974) - "Projecting Britain and the British Character": Ealing Studios, Part 1
- Screen (1974) - "Projecting Britain and the British Character": Ealing Studios, Part 2
- Sight and Sound (1983) - Blackmail: silent and sound
- Filmhäftet (1999) - Hitchcock, Engelsman
- Filmihullu (1999) - Englantilainen Hitchcock
- Hitchcock Annual (2000) - A Marvelously Dramatic Subject: Hitchcock's "Titanic" Project
- Hitchcock Annual (2003) - Book Reviews: "A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho'"
- Hitchcock Annual (2004) - Deserter or Honored Exile?: Views of Hitchcock from Wartime Britain
- Screen (2005) - Hitchcock and Powell: Two Directions for British Cinema
- Hitchcock Annual (2005) - Reframing British Cinema 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion (book review)
- Hitchcock Annual (2011) - "The Knock of Disapproval": Juno and the Paycock and its Irish Reception
- Hitchcock Annual (2013) - Hitchcock and Documentary: Re-editing Men of the Lightship
- Sight and Sound (2014) - Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense (book review)
Newspaper Articles
- The Independent (25/May/2002) - Obituary: Raymond Durgnat
- The Guardian (04/Jan/2010) - Obituary: Robin Wood
- The Times (04/Aug/2011) - Commentary: The White Shadow
Documentaries
He has appeared in the following Hitchcockian documentaries...
- Hitchcock: The Early Years (1999)
- Living Famously: Alfred Hitchcock (BBC, 2002)
- Alfred Hitchcock in East London (2009)
Discography
He has contributed to the following DVD & Blu-ray releases...
- Hitchcock: The British Years - Network (UK, 2008) - introductions to each film
- The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, USA, 2011) - accompanying booklet
Videos
Highlights from Hitchcock scholar Charles Barr's talk at the Researcher's Tales event at the BFI Library [December 2000]. Here, he explores Hitchcock's formative years in silent cinema and his influences, including German Expressionist filmmakers, Russian film theorists and screenwriter Eliot Stannard.
Professor Charles Barr discusses "one of the most interesting 'might have beens' of cinema history", a Titanic film which was to have been Hitchcock's first Hollywood project. (11/Apr/2012)
Alfred Hitchcock's Titanic: The Film that Never Was (2012)
Cambridge Arts Picture House (19/Oct/2012)
Charles Barr: "Hitchcock and his Writers" (07/Feb/2013)
