Course details
Name: ENFL - 251
Title: SPECIAL TOPIC: HITCHCOCK
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2019
Credits: 3
Description:
The course will focus on Alfred Hitchcock’s extensive body of work, beginning in the 1920s in England and lasting through the 1970s in the United States. We will study characteristic elements of Hitchcock’s films: recurring character types, themes, settings, genres, and visual/aural style. We will trace the evolution of Hitchcock’s career—his transition to the Hollywood studio system and relationship with producer David O. Selznick, as well as his television work. And we will examine Hitchcock’s significant place in the development of film theory (auteur theory of the 1950s and feminist theory in the 1970s). Films under consideration include: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956), Sabotage (1936), Rebecca (1940), Shadow of A Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), and Frenzy (1972).
Requirements: engaged class discussion, weekly postings on Canvas, outside of class screenings on DVD or streaming services, mid-term, final.
Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Genre Study (Film)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: Cutler Janet (cutlerj)
Is course canceled: No