FILM 3700 – Alfred Hitchcock
Email: michaelbass@clayton.edu
Office: Arts & Sciences – G121 Part Time Office
Visitation Hours: MW 1-3pm or by appointment

Spring 2024 Full Course Syllabus

Course Readings (Password Protected)

Full List of Hitch’s Film and TV Credits

Brief Chronology of Hitch’s Life

Final Project Short Film Option Breakdown

Resources
Clayton State Academic Calendars
Clayton State Film, Communication, and Performing Arts Department
Clayton State Communications and Media Studies Department
Clayton State Film Production Department
(Some) Georgia Film Festivals!
SWANK – CSU Library’s Streaming Service!
Kanopy – CSU Library’s Other Streaming Service!
Hoopla – Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Streaming Service!
Atlanta Fulton County Public Library!
Criterion Channel
Shudder
Adblock Plus
Videodrome Atlanta
Midtown Art Cinema Atlanta
Plaza Theatre Atlanta
Film Terms Glossary
Box Office Mojo
Film-Related Podcasts
How to Email a Professor
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Gauntlett, “Essay-Writing: The Essential Guide”
More Paper Tips
What is a Scholarly Article?
How to Read Scholarly Articles
How to Find Scholarly Articles
Citation Styles Help

Lecture Notes
MIDTERM REVIEW
ACADEMIC WRITING
Abel – Notorious: Perversion par Excellence
Armbruster – Nostalgia
Belton – The Space of Rear Window
Beville – Monsters as We Know Them
Beville – The Spectacle of the Lack: Realizing the Monster on Screen
Boym – Nostalgia and its Discontents
Cavell – North By Northwest
Chion – A Film That Stays With You
Dansky – On the Persistence of Camp
Deutelbaum – Seeing in Saboteur
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Adaptations
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Auteur Theory
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Feminism
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Postmodernism
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Psychoanalysis
Doughty & Etherington-Wright – Queer Theory
Elsaesser & Hagener – Cinema as Ear: Acoustics and Space
Fisher – The Slow Cancellation of the Future
Fisher – What is Hauntology?
Freedman – From Spellbound to Vertigo: Hitchcock and Therapeutic Culture in America
Freedman – Introduction
Freud – The Uncanny
Goddu – Introduction to American Gothic (extract)
Hark – “We Might Even Get in the Newsreels”
Hyde – The Moral Universe of Hitchcock’s Spellbound
Illbruck – Uncanny Acts of Violence
Kalinina – What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Media and Nostalgia?
Lutz – From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History
McGowan – Introduction: The Bizarre Nature of Normality
McLaughlin – All in the Family: Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt
Modleski – Femininity by Design: Vertigo
Modleski – Woman and the Labyrinth
Modleski – The Woman Who Was Known Too Much
Mulvey – Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Nadel – Expedient Exaggeration and the Scale of Cold War Farce in North By Northwest
Petro – Rematerializing the Vanishing “Lady”: Feminism, Hitchcock, and Interpretation
Poague – Criticism and/as History: Rereading Blackmail
Pomerance – Looking Up: Class, England, and America in The Man Who Knew Too Much
Richardson – Introduction: Surrealist Film Theory and Practice
Sarris – Alfred Hitchcock: Prankster of Paradox
Schneider – Introduction: Psychoanalysis in/and/of the Horror Film
Schneider – Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors
Silet – Through a Woman’s Eyes: Sexuality and Memory in The 39 Steps
Smith – ‘It’s Just a Movie’: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes
Staiger – Creating the Brand: The Hitchcock Touch
Stam & Pearson – Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism
Tifft – Mrs. Bates’s Smile: Psycho and Psychoanalysis
Todorov – Definition of the Fantastic
Truffaut – Introduction
Truffaut – Chapter 1
Truffaut – Chapter 2
Truffaut – Chapter 3
Weis – Consolidation of a Classical Style: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Wheatley – Gender Politics and the Gothic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca
Wood – Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt
Wood – The Men Who Knew Too Much (and the women who knew much better)
Wood – The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock’s Homophobia
Wood – Psycho
Wood – Strangers on a Train
Wood – Vertigo
Worland – A Short History of the Horror Film (Gothic Section)

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