HITCHCOCK AND MORMONISM Which Alfred Hitchcock film contains a long passage from the Book of Mormon, and how and why did it get into the film? What Mormon actors have starred in Hitchcock films? What Mormon artist created the largest work of art featured in any of Hitchcock’s films? What Mormon screenwriter wrote several episodes …
Speaker: R. John Williams
Hitchcock’s Mormon Plot
In the post-production phase of Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot, the director sent a memo to his sound editor to dub over one of the scenes a long monologue that Hitchcock had assembled from three different passages in the Book of Mormon. Hitchcock never indicated the origin of the monologue nor why he wanted …
A MARVELOUS WORK AND A POSSESSION: BOOK OF MORMON HISTORICITY AS ‘COLON-IALIZATION’
Recent comparative attempts to characterize the DNA challenge to Book of Mormon historicity as a “Galileo Event” are interesting and provocative, but they have led to turf wars over who, exactly, is the “Galileo” figure and whether the revolutionary “events” in sixteenth-century astronomy and Catholic doctrine are an appropriate model for under-standing the debate on …