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 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.

Christine Madrid French is a historian, screenwriter and author of the upcoming "Alfred Hitchcock and American Architecture: Villain’s Lairs, Skyscrapers, Mansions, and Motels" (University of Virginia Press, 2022). Her unproduced screenplay, "Piney Croft," a paranormal horror feature set in Florida, was a semi-finalist at the Orlando Film Festival and selected by iHorror Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival Horror Fest, and the Madrid International Film Festival. She currently works as Director of Development with the California Preservation Foundation and is head of Creator Services at LoCo+, a streaming platform featuring local content creators.