From R.O.T. to Redemption
HtichCon '21: What’s It All about, Alfie?
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15m
Hitchcock once remarked that North by Northwest is “the American 39 Steps.” However, while we don’t know much about the backgrounds of Richard Hannay or Pamela in the earlier film, we do learn some salient details about Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall. This talk will shed light on how Hitchcock and screenwriter Ernest Lehman used the narrative paradigm provided by The 39 Steps, but deepened the thematic resonance of the model by exploring the personally transformative potential of romantic love in North by Northwest.
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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