B.C. Knowlton - Catholic Insight

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B. C. Knowlton is Lecturer in History, English, and Classics at Assumption College in Worcester MA. An interest in language articulates his work in these fields, and animates his teaching of his students. With his wife Eloise Knowlton, Dean of Studies at Assumption, he has written on the Sacrament of Reconciliation in Hitchcock’s I Confess and on the Sacrament of Matrimony in F. W. Murnau’s Faust.

Ordination and Marriage in Hitchcock’s ‘I Confess’

B.C. Knowlton - March 22, 2019

(This analysis of Alfred Hitchock's film noir classic 'I Confess' offers some key insights, but, as a caveat, also gives away elements of the...

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