Vertigo as a Pythian Sybil of Modern Anxieties
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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20m
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 classics and film at Christopher Newport University in the state of Virginia, where he holds the title Distinguished Professor. Mark completed collegiate work in English and Classics and earned his PhD in Comparative Literature. Containing himself first to scholarly work on Greek literature and philosophy, following a period in academic administration he returned to his comp lit roots in the 2010s, participating in the emerging field of classical reception. His larger project considers the masked presences of classical myth and references to antiquity at large in Hitchcock. He has published three books with Lexington Books and authored related essays. The titles are Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock’s Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films and (forthcoming) Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Important Film. His essays have appeared in The Hitchcock Annual and The Hitchcockian Quarterly.
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