Joel Gunz expands on the weekend's theme to explore a variety of ways in which Hitchcock's films remain topical, if not urgently relevant.

Joel Gunz is President & Host of HitchCon. An independent scholar known online as the Alfred Hitchcock Geek, Joel is an award-winning filmmaker and publisher...

Hitchcock's apocalyptic film eerily foreshadowed the most deadly pandemic of the last 100 years.

Tony Lee Moral's new book "Hitchcock: The Storyboards" (Penguin Random House, September 2023) explores the visual design of The 39 Steps through to Torn Curtain. An updated version of "The Young Alfr...

The quest for individual liberty as expressed in many of Hitchcock’s films.

Steven DeRosa is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Steven 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 C...

Frenzy (1972), ever ripe to the point of spoilage, is a covert yet progressive testament to environmental awareness.

Elizabeth L. Bullock is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. As an adjunct instructor, Beth teaches cinema, ...

The morning's speakers gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research.

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 Sacre...

Pressures on our personal life from extreme political movements have never been more difficult to negotiate. What if it becomes necessary to pick one? Hitchcock may offer some guidance.

Marc Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College o...

This talk will draw the legacy from Hitchcock to Taxi Driver (1976) to Joker (2019) to Queen and Slim (2019), exploring cars as an analogy for entrapment.

Karen Ritzenhoff is Professor in Communication, as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Central Connecticut State University. In ...

Let's consider how Suture (1993) elevates its amnesiac protagonist’s agency and free will as solutions to crises of identity and memory over and as a tribute to the armchair Freudianisms deployed by Spellbound.

Douglas A. Cunningham serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities a...

This talk uses new archival discoveries to reconstruct, for the first time, Selznick and Hitchcock’s planned remake of The Lodger, providing new insights into why the project fell apart.

Henry K. Miller is the author of "The First True Hitchcock," published by University of California Press in 2...

Both Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Hitchcock's loose adaptation of the novel, Sabotage, convey the pervasive feeling of (inter)national crisis. This talk will shine a light on the neglected Polish and Eastern European context behind the film.

Sebastian Smoliński teaches film studies in Wa...

The contemporary world can seem more out of kilter with each act of doom-scrolling of our news media. The speaker will deploy motifs from Orpheus and Eurydice, Prometheus and Pandora and more to explore how Vertigo prophesies the contours of this present predicament.

Dr. Mark W. Padilla teaches ...

The speakers will gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research. The afternoon's speakers are joined by special guests Steven DeRosa, Sidney Gottlieb and Thomas Leitch to wrap up the weekend's symposia.

Joel Gunz is President & Host of HitchCon. An independent sch...

Christine will drop by HitchCon to discuss her latest article in Vanity Fair magazine and share a few sneak peeks from her new book "The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock."

Walter Raubicheck is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Walter Raubicheck is profes...

If you believe the internet, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock were caught in a long-standing feud. This talk debunks that myth to dig deeper into the parallels between these two giants and their sharply contrasting contributions to the cinematic fronts of the second world war.

Pat McFadden is a ...

This paper challenges the Hitchcockian moniker “Master of Suspense” to posit that the principle of surprise is also central to Hitchcock, which explains why his films continue to resonate with creators of interactive media and virtual reality environments today.

Maria Belodubrovskaya is Associat...

A comparison between screenshots from F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924) with Rear Window (1954) demonstrates that Hitchcock referenced Murnau to present the disintegrating ego of a war vet as the cultural memory of war fades.

Polly Thompson has worked as an editor and writer in Vancouver, Ott...

The speakers gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research.

Steven DeRosa is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Steven is the author of “Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes.” He’s appeared on-screen in the documentar...

A GLIMPSE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
In 1919, at age 19, Hitchcock began publishing short stories in the Henley Telegraph. "Gas" was his first effort. This video uses clips from a half dozen of his early films (and one by E. A. Dupont) to bring his short story to life, neatly demonstrating how ...

A play by Walter Raubicheck

The speakers gather to field your questions and comments and discuss each other's research.

Elizabeth L. Bullock is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. As an adjunct instructor, Beth teaches cinema, art history, and humaniti...

Made in Britain but released nearly 50 years apart, this talk focuses on how The Lodger (1927) and Frenzy (1972) rely on similar themes of violence against women, signifying a director finding his feet in a genre he loves and later signing off at the end of his career.

Evangeline Spachis is an M...

Michelle Risacher is an MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, with research interests in feminism, queer theory and the issues of temporality that inflect each. She has presented her scholarship at the undergraduate SCMS conference and the ACM Student Fi...

Christina Lane is the bestselling, Edgar®-Award winning author of "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock." She is Professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami, where she teaches courses in film history, gender...

Theresa L. Geller is the author of "The X-Files" (Wayne State UP, 2016) and editor of "Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark" (Duke UP, 2022). She teaches film and television studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Geller was recently a Scholar-in-Residence with the Beatrice Bai...