Episode 1: Beyond the Shadow
HitchGeek Academy: How to Watch Hitchcock
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By 1955, the year he came out with his TV show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hitch was so famous that you could literally identify him by his shadow. But if that's all you think of when you think of the man, you'd be missing the real flesh and blood. This episode takes you back to the beginning of his genius.
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Episode 2: The Punk Years
As a young man, Alfred Hitchcock hung out with anarchists, modernists, Dadaists and radicals who questioned the very air we breathe. Those values helped his artistic sensibility for decades to come. Learn how.
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Episode 3: Murder!
The Lodger (1927) may have been Hitchcock's breakout film but Murder! (1930) revealed the depth of his humanism. In this film the young artist foregrounded his uneasiness with easy answers of accepted morality—and pointed the way to more nuanced view of human nature.
