SOURCE: Hemmeter, Thomas. “Adaptation, History, and Textual Suppression: Literary Sources of Hitchcock's Sabotage.” In Literature and Film in the Historical Dimension: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, edited by John D. Simons, pp. 149-61. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
In the following essay, Hemmeter reviews the textual antecedents of Alfred Hitchcock's film Sabotage, proposing that the director used both the novel and play versions of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.
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