HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
Alfred Hitchcock’s name is synonymous with suspense. But at HitchCon ‘21 we asked, "What can his films teach us about love?" Speakers from Canada, England and the United States gathered to share their insights on the uncommonly poignant, wise and honest depiction of love and its travails in his films.
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Saturday Afternoon–Part 2 Q&A
Sidney Gottlieb moderates audience Q&A with presenters Joel Gunz, Christine Madrid French, and Robert Bellissimo.
Sidney Gottlieb is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. A true leading light of Hitchcock scholarship, Sidney edits the Hitchcock Annual and is Professor of Communication and Media Stud...
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Introduction to Trouble with Harry
Sidney Gottlieb gives an introduction to Hitchcock's "Trouble with Harry" (1955).
Sidney Gottlieb is a 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, ...
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Love is a Repeating Pattern: A Comparison of Vertigo and Birth
What is the price of a great love if it blinds one to the present reality? Buckley explores the affinities between Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Jonathan Glazer’s Birth (2004)—two films that riff on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice—to explore themes of obsession, repetition, projection and grief...
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Hitchcock’s Storyboards and Visual Art
Through meticulous pre-planning and the use of camera logic, Hitchcock was renowned for putting everything down on paper, working with such art directors and storyboard artists as Robert Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Saul Bass, Salvador Dalí, and Harold Michelson. Tony discusses these collaborations and...
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Lisa’s Fourth Lamp
Hitchcock found a vast variety of ways to use floor and table lamps within a scene. They blind, trap, suggest, signal, and mark for murder. In a couple of films, lamps even follow people around like puppies. But Hitchcock almost always saved one lamp to mark the place where Love meets Murder. In ...
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Sunday Morning Q&A
Patricia White moderates audience Q&A with presenters Norman Buckley, Tony Lee Moral, and Christopher Daly.
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 Femi...
