Rooting for Rupert: How Hitchcock Complicates the (Anti?) Hero of Rope
HitchCon '23: Hitchcock Unbound
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In casting all-American war hero James Stewart as Rupert Cadell, the bookish schoolmaster and central authority in "Rope" (1948), Hitchcock creates the expectation that he will be the hero of this film as well. However, Cadell proceeds to upend those presumptions. This talk by Rebecca McCallum, host of the Talk Hitchcock podcast, explores how Hitchcock subverts traditional storytelling, compelling us to question our complicity in evil.
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