Saturday Afternoon–Part 1 Q&A
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
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23m
Marc Strauss moderates audience Q&A with presenters Steven DeRosa, Walter Raubicheck, and Patricia White.
Marc Strauss is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University and author of "Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Films" (2004; McFarland), "Hitchcock’s Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen" (2016; McFarland) and, most recently, "Discovering Musicals: A Liberal Arts Guide to Stage and Screen" (McFarland; 2019). His forthcoming book about Hitchcock’s effect on audience emotion, is due out June 2023. He and his artist wife, Sarah Riley, are retired and live on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts with their mini-schnauzer Gracie.
Steven DeRosa is the author of “Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.” He’s appeared on-screen in the documentary “Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival;” in the documentary “The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style;” and in featurettes on home video releases of “To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.” Since 2011, Steven has been teaching film studies and screenwriting at Mercy University in Westchester County, New York. Beginning with his popular course on Hitchcock, Steven partnered with his local Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to host discussions for both students and the theater audience. He’s also hosted film series on Orson Welles, Hollywood Westerns, and Screwball Comedies.
Walter Raubicheck is professor of English at Pace University in New York. He is the co-author with Walter Srebnick of "Scripting Hitchcock" (2011), and co-editor, with Srebnick, of "Hitchcock’s Re-released Films: From Rope to Vertigo" (1991). More recently, he edited "Hitchcock and the Cold War: New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969." A playwright, he debuted "The New Norman," a play about the making of Psycho at HitchCon '22. In addition to his work on Hitchcock, he has published essays on twentieth-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Dashiell Hammett, and G. K. Chesterton.
Patricia White is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of "Rebecca" (2021; Bloomsbury), "Women’s Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms" (2015; Duke University Press) and "Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability" (1999; Indiana University Press). She is co-author with Timothy Corrigan of "The Film Experience" (2018; Bedford St. Martins), now in its 6th edition. White serves on the boards of "Women Make Movies" and "Film Quarterly" and the editorial collective of "Camera Obscura."
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