The “Shadow” in To Catch a Thief
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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Multiple shadowy shots of John Robie (Cary Grant) on the roofs of those Monaco villas suggest that he is encountering what Carl Jung calls his “shadow,” the repressed parts of himself that up to now have resided in his personal unconscious. Now he has little choice but to make them conscious.
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.
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Sunday Afternoon–Part 2 Panel Discussion
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.
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