Unraveling the Freudian Stitches: Spellbound, Suture and the End of Theory
HitchCon '22: Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis
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15m
Let's consider how Suture (1993) elevates its amnesiac protagonist’s agency and free will as solutions to crises of identity and memory over and as a tribute to the armchair Freudianisms deployed by Spellbound.
Douglas A. Cunningham serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities at several universities in the Intermountain West. He’s also the editor of, and the author of two essays for, "The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration" (Scarecrow, 2011). Cunningham is also the editor of "Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock" (Salem, 2017), for which he also wrote an essay on The Birds. He was also producer and director of "Listen, Darkling," a short fiction film produced as a complex tribute to Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
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