HitchCon ‘25 Program
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Friday, October 3rd
Friday Morning
8:30 AM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Welcome and Introduction to morning host Steven DeRosa
Colleen Glenn: Scottie on the Analyst’s Couch: A View of 1950s Psychology in Vertigo
Stella Castelli: Notes on Vertigo: Camp Sensibility & Madness
Cassidy Alexander: #hitchcockmask
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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H. Marshall Leicester: Hitchcock’s Social Class: The British Silent Years
Pat McFadden: Chadwick and Danvers: Hiring the Help in Hitchcock
Steven DeRosa: Beneath the Masks: Love, Identity and Class Divide in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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Friday Afternoon
1:00 PM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Introduction to afternoon host Elisabeth Karlin
James Chapman: Hitchcock and Theatre
Oisin Queally: Flash Talk Dual Versions and Visions of The Man Who Knew Too Much
Walter Raubicheck: Flash Talk Something’s R.O.T.ten in the State of South Dakota: Roger Thornhill’s Matchbook Redemption
Christopher McKittrick: Overlooked Gems: The Curious Incident of Hitchcock's “Incident at a Corner”
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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Steven Smith: Hitchcock and Herrmann: Their Friendship and Film Scores
Q&A: The speaker answers your questions.
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Office Hours: Join the conversation with your own comments and questions.
Saturday, October 4th
Saturday Morning
8:30 AM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Introduction to morning host Walter Raubicheck
Nick Haeffner: Disenchantment and dissociation in Vertigo and Severance
Nathan Seckinger: Esoteric Realism in Three Masters of Suspense: Hitchcock, Kubrick and Lynch
KEYNOTE TALK: Joel Gunz: What is Pure Cinema?
Q&A: The speaker answers your questions.
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Caroline Young: The Conflict of the Single Woman in Hitchcock’s Films
Rebecca McCallum: Looking Out/Listening In: Masculinity in Crisis in Rear Window and The Conversation
Elizabeth Bullock: The Bardo of Vertigo: A Tragedy of Interdependent Becoming
Q&A: The speaker answers your questions.
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Saturday Afternoon
1:00 PM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Introduction to afternoon host Pat McFadden
Walter Raubicheck & Steven DeRosa: Introduction to the 90th Anniversary of The 39 Steps
Special screening: The 39 Steps
Icebox Conversation: Discuss The 39 Steps and the day’s talks.
Sunday, October 5th
Sunday Morning
8:30 AM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Introduction to morning host Robert Kapsis
Robert Kapsis: Hitchcock's Worldwide Reception
Tifenn Brisset: Hitchcock Before Cahiers: Postwar Auteurism in L’Écran Français
Dona M. Kercher: Hitchcock in Argentina: Seeing Psycho through Taxidermy
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Daisuke Miyao: Invisibility and Hypervisibility: Hitchcock in Japan
Elizabeth Bullock: Respondent to the Morning Session
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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Joel Gunz: Introduction to host Pat McFadden
Erin Bradfield: “Is it Future or Is it Past?”: Trauma, Repetition and Tragic Heroes in Vertigo and Twin Peaks
Katy Coakley: There’s Always Someone Watching: The Hidden Hitchcockian Influence in The Skin I Live In and The Substance
Elisabeth Karlin: A Sea Change: Is Lifeboat Improving with Age?
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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Sunday Afternoon
1:00 PM PDT (Seattle)
Joel Gunz: Introduction to host Elizabeth Bullock
Thomas Leitch: Hitchcock the Entertainer
Sidney Gottlieb: Reflections on The Pleasure Garden
Q&A: The speakers return to answer your questions.
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Barry Sandler, in conversation with Steven DeRosa: My Memories of Working with Kim Novak and Anthony Perkins
Q&A: The speakers answer your questions.
Joel Gunz: Closing
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Office Hours: Join the conversation: make comments and ask questions.