Hitchcock Seminar Companion Screening Lab

(0 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This seminar examines Alfred Hitchcock, the director of 64 films and many television programs, whose career spanned the silent era of the 1920s through the 1970s, and who became a transmedia icon and brand. We will analyze the themes, visual elements, character types, and narrative structures that recur in his films; consider the role of collaborators such as writers, actors, and composers; and study the directors and film styles that influenced him and his influence on other directors. We will apply various methodologies to our study including the auteur theory, psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, semiotics, queer theory, critical race studies, genre theory, theories of cinematic space and more.