History and Aesthetics in Hitchcock (FMS-0073)

Spring 2024 · FMS 0073 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

This course will provide the student with an overview of the cinematic work of Alfred Hitchcock. Using critical, psychoanalytic and feminist film theory we will investigate the various historic, aesthetic, thematic and formal concerns threaded throughout his film work. In our study we will examine his skillful narrative coding of the suspense thriller using point-of-view/spectator identification techniques, his powerful but often disturbing representation of women, the patterns of looking and voyeurism inscribed in his work and much more.

Course codes: FMS-0073, FMS 0073, FMS0073, FMS-73, FMS 73, FMS73, VMS-0100, VMS 0100, VMS0100, VMS-100, VMS 100, VMS100

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