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Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
Ed Brubaker’s mature Batman
Ed Brubaker is one of the most critically acclaimed comic book writers of the 21st century. Heavily influenced by crime fiction and by the superhero revisionist turn of the 1980s, he has continually sought to imbue American comics with a … Continue reading
A couple of vintage spy novels
I’ve written extensively about John le Carré in this blog, but today I want to go further back into the roots of spy literature. Here are a couple of very different novels by a couple of very different writers who … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, books without pictures, Cold War, espionage, politics
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Spotlight on The Adventures of Tintin – part 1
Something I would like to do more this year is to write about Eurocomics – especially the old Franco-Belgian bande dessinée albums that were such a huge part of my childhood. Today, let’s have a closer look at just a … Continue reading
Posted in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Hergé, politics, science fiction, Tintin, World War II
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Gotham Calling’s top 50 film noir
Today is Gotham Calling’s seventh anniversary! I usually mark these occasions with a compilation of fifty images from Batman comics, showcasing the Dark Knight kicking people in the head or breaking through windows. Since the blog’s identity has been shifting … Continue reading
Posted in HARDBOILED CRIME
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cold War, Frank Miller, Graham Greene, movies, noir, politics, The Spirit, World War II
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On World War II adventure movies
Writing about The Unknown Soldier last week made me think that I should expand a bit more on the specific genre that is World War II adventure. In fact, I want to go straight to the source and actually talk … Continue reading
Posted in SPYCRAFT & WARFARE
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, espionage, Graham Greene, movies, noir, politics, World War II
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On Mission: Impossible, the original TV series
After a whole month looking at spy fiction, it’s only fair I give you my take on the latest summer blockbuster, the spy thriller Mission: Impossible – Fallout. I’ll do that in the next post, though. First, some words about … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Cold War, espionage, Mission Impossible, movies, politics
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Alfred Hitchcock homages in Batman comics
The amazing thing about Alfred Hitchcock isn’t just that he directed what the latest Sight & Sound poll considers the greatest film of all time (Vertigo), or that on top of that he was behind numerous other classics, but that … Continue reading