HitchCon ‘25 Program

Welcome Remarks
Joel Gunz
Host
Walter Raubicheck
Scottie on the Analyst’s Couch: A View of 1950s Psychology in Vertigo
Colleen Glenn
Notes on Vertigo: Camp Sensibility & Madness
Stella Castelli
#hitchcockmask
Cassidy Alexander
Q&A
Break
Host
Walter Raubicheck
Hitchcock’s Social Class: The British Silent Years
H. Marshall Leicester
Chadwick and Danvers: Hiring the Help in Hitchcock
Pat McFadden
Beneath the Masks: Love, Identity and Class Divide in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief
Steven DeRosa
Q&A
Lunch Break
Host
Elisabeth Karlin
Hitchcock and Theatre
James Chapman
Dual Versions and Visions of The Man Who Knew Too Much
Oisin Queally
Something’s R.O.T.ten in the State of South Dakota: Roger Thornhill’s Matchbook Redemption
Walter Raubicheck
Overlooked Gems: The Curious Incident of Hitchcock's “Incident at a Corner”
Christopher McKittrick
Q&A
Break
Host
Elisabeth Karlin
Hitchcock and Herrmann: Their Friendship and Film Scores
Steven Smith
Q&A

Host
Steven DeRosa
Disenchantment and dissociation in Vertigo and Severance
Nick Haeffner
Esoteric Realism in Three Masters of Suspense: Hitchcock, Kubrick and Lynch
Nathan Seckinger
What is Pure Cinema?
Joel Gunz
Q&A
Break
Host
Steven DeRosa
The Conflict of the Single Woman in Hitchcock’s Films
Caroline Young
Looking Out/Listening In: Masculinity in Crisis in Rear Window and The Conversation
Rebecca McCallum
Vertigo Bardo: Spectral Rebirth and Death in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Elizabeth Bullock
Q&A
Lunch Break
Host
Pat McFadden
Introduction to The 39 Steps
Walter Raubicheck & Steven DeRosa
Screening of The 39 Steps
Q&A

Host
Robert Kapsis
Hitchcock's Worldwide Reception
Robert Kapsis
Hitchcock Before Cahiers: Postwar Auteurism in L’Écran Français
Tifenn Brisset
Hitchcock in Argentina: Seeing Psycho through Taxidermy
Dona M. Kercher
Invisibility and Hypervisibility: Hitchcock in Japan
Daisuke Miyao
Respondent
Elizabeth Bullock
Q&A
Break
Host
Pat McFadden
“Is it Future or Is it Past?”: Trauma, Repetition and Tragic Heroes in Vertigo and Twin Peaks
Erin Bradfield
There’s Always Someone Watching: The Hidden Hitchcockian Influence in The Skin I Live In and The Substance
Katy Coakley
A Sea Change: Is Lifeboat Improving with Age?
Elisabeth Karlin
Q&A
Lunch Break
Host
Elizabeth Bullock
Hitchcock the Entertainer
Thomas Leitch
Reflections on The Pleasure Garden
Sidney Gottlieb
Q&A
Break
Host
Sidney Gottlieb
My Memories of Working with Kim Novak and Anthony Perkins
Steven DeRosa & Barry Sandler
Q&A
Closing Remarks
Joel Gunz