3. Double Take
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
An essay film by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, which intercuts clips
and interviews featuring Alfred Hitchcock with archive footage of cold
war news coverage, and tells the story of the rise of “fear as a commodity”
4. The HBO Voyeur Project
A theatrical multimedia experience
-Inspired by Hitchcock’s film Rear Window
-The site’s slogan was “See what people do when they
think no one is watching.”
-The focus seems to be
on people living in eight
fictional apartments on
the corner of Broome
Street and Ludlow
Street.
8. REAR WINDOW LOOP (2010)
- Dissected and stiched the film into a single panoramic view.
- The entire coutyard represents the view from James Stewart’s
characters’ window.
a visual installation by Jeff Desom
13. Symbolic Sexuality
A series of storyboards/ film stills that explores the
sexual tensions in Hitchcock’s films
Example:
In Psycho, Norman Bates is having a conversation
with Marion Crane. At the same time, one of his
hands is stroking a dead animal and the other hand
lingers on his crotch.
14. Books I need to read
1. Hitchcock motifs by Michael Walker
2. The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression
3. Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
by Donald Spoto
4. The Art of Looking in Hitchcock’s Rear Window by Stefan Sharff
5. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick
Mcgilligan
6. The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist
Theory by Tania Modleski
