“The Body in the Coach”: Fairy Tales in Alfred Hitchcock’s Corpus
HitchCon '23: Hitchcock Unbound
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22m
Alfred Hitchcock once confessed to Francois Truffaut that "Rebecca" (1940), is a Cinderella story. In fact, as HitchCon Advisory Board member and instructor at City Colleges of Chicago and Dominican University Elizabeth L. Bullock here engagingly argues, fairy tale motifs radiate through the filmmaker’s corpus as an updated, cinematic critique of modernity. This talk explores Hitchcock’s invocation of fairy tales in his films, when and how they appear, and how the combined effect of these “magical shape-shifters," as Marina Warner describes them, "dance to the needs of their audience."
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