Course details

Name: ENFL - 251

Title: SPECIAL TOPIC: HITCHCOCK

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
Alfred Hitchcock and the Emergence of Film Culture: For this course we will cover a significant portion of the works of one of cinema's most popular and accomplished directors, a larger-than-life figure known to many of us as "the master of suspense." Alfred Hitchcock was born in 1899, more or less when our first "narrative" films emerged. In a certain sense, Hitchcock's life paralleled that of film as we have come to know it during the 20th century. Thus we will also learn about film history and culture through his life, work, and reception. We will study how popular films were both critiqued in the press and studied seriously by an emerging intellectual film culture. We know more about Hitchcock than any other film director--he made sure of this. And so we will be led by interesting questions about studying a specific director. How do we approach him and his works? How can we understand a significant and widely varied ouvre as a whole? To what extent is the director responsible for the work? Does his life manifest in his films? (And can we know this?) What about his collaborators? What does it mean to study popular films seriously? Why would we do this? How do we study films? What kinds of readings can we do of his films? To paraphrase what he often said of his audience, "[we] will put [him] through it."

Last updated on 2024-07-25 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

Schedule: Friday From 9:45 am To 12:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Film)

Teaching Faculty: Monar Francisco (monarf)

Is course canceled: No