Keynote presentation: The Trouble with Harry: Hitchcock’s Autumnal “Love Nest”
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
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57m
This conference, held in the fall, seems to be a perfect occasion to talk about Hitchcock’s insistently autumnal film, which is very much a picture of a “love nest,” a term suggesting both the pleasures and the problems of love. Gottlieb will explore some relevant interpretive contexts that will help expand our understanding of the film to ask: are intimacy and community possible in a way that is lasting, mutually beneficial and does not entail a loss of freedom?
HitchCon Advisory Board member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits the Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. His publications on Hitchcock include two volumes of "Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews" (University of California Press, 1995; 2015), "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews" (University Press of Mississippi, 2003), "Framing Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual" (co-edited with Christopher Brookhouse; Wayne State University Press, 2002); "The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15" (co-edited with Richard Allen; Wallflower Press, 2009), and the forthcoming "Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now" (co-edited with Donal Martin; John Libbey Publishing/Indiana University Press, 2021).
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