HitchCon ‘23 Program

Times are Eastern/New York.

9:30 am Joel Gunz, Welcome remarks and introduction to host Elisabeth Karlin
9:45 am Todd Berliner, Psycho and the Art of Manipulation
10:10 am Steven DeRosa, Hitchcockian Sleight of Hand: Unreliable Narrators, False Flashbacks and Cinematic Cheats
10:35 am BREAK
10:45 am Katy Coakley, Struggling to Survive at Sea: The Challenges of Decisions in Lifeboat
11:00 am H. Marshall Leicester, “If It Doesn’t Jell, It Isn’t Aspic”: Multiple Narratives in Psycho
11:25 am Rebecca McCallum, Rooting for Rupert: How Hitchcock complicates our responses to the (Anti?) Hero of Rope
11:50 am LUNCH
1:00 pm Joel Gunz, Introduction to host Elizabeth L. Bullock
1:05 pm KEYNOTE: Thomas Leitch, The King of Retro Storytelling
1:55 pm BREAK
2:05 pm Pat McFadden, What Was He Thinking? The Scrambled Cinematic Language of Rich and Strange
2:30 pm Jeff Hughes, Downhill and the Origins of a Horror POV Aesthetic
2:55 pm BREAK
3:00 pm Joel Gunz, Introduction to host Steven DeRosa
3:05 pm KEYNOTE: William Rothman, Shadow of a Doubt: The Thornton Wilder Screenplay
3:40 pm Maurice Yacowar, Hitchcock’s “Misteaks”
4:05 pm BREAK
4:10 pm D. A. Miller, Continuity Violations in Dial M for Murder
4:40 pm KEYNOTE: Murray Pomerance, “Hitchcock's Enchanting Silences”
5:15 pm DINNER
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943
7:00 pm Introduction by Steven DeRosa
Followed by Icebox Conversation

Times are Eastern/New York.

9:30 am Joel Gunz, Welcome remarks and introduction to host Sidney Gottlieb
9:35 am KEYNOTE: Richard Allen, Hitchcock, Melodrama, and the Catholic Imagination
10:25 am BREAK
10:35 am Mark W. Padilla, PhD, PhD, Scapegoat Themes in I Confess and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
11:00 am Elizabeth L. Bullock, “The Body in the Coach:” Fairy Tales in Alfred Hitchcock’s Corpus
11:25 am Neil Badmington, In the Garden with Annie Hayworth
11:50 am LUNCH
1:00 pm Joel Gunz, Introduction to host Pat McFadden
1:05 pm Elisabeth Karlin, "You Make This Very Room a Theater": Hitchcock Takes the Stage
1:30 pm KEYNOTE: Paula Marantz Cohen
Conversational Sparring and Visual Reflexivity—How Hitchcock Encourages us to Talk about Him
2:00 pm BREAK
2:10 pm Joel Gunz, Film Essay: Travels in the Hitchcockian Multiverse
2:35 pm BREAK
2:40 pm Joel Gunz, Introduction to host Walter Raubicheck
2:45 pm Marilyn Fabe, PhD, Whatever Happened to Mary Rose?
3:10 pm Tony Lee Moral, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock's Storyboards
3:35 pm BREAK
3:45 pm Steven DeRosa, Introduction
Panel: Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick, with Joel Gunz
Our Dinner With Evan
4:20 pm BREAK
4:30 pm William Rothman and Murray Pomerance
Fireside chat: "A Conversation about Shadow of a Doubt"
5:10 pm Joel Gunz, Closing Remarks