Filmography

Bibliography

Rankings, polls, and awards

Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his films

Hitchcock's five basic plots (from Robin Wood)

Critical approaches in Hitchcock study (from Jane Sloan & others)

Film techniques and related matters


Themes & topics:

Summary: Hitchcock themes and motifs

The MacGuffin

Expressionism in art & film

Hitchcock & psychoanalysis

Doppelgangers and doubles

Scopophilia, voyeurism, the gaze, objectification, fetishism

Homosexuality in Hitchcock movies

Eyes in Hitchcock movies

Dangling and falling

Portraits & paintings in Hitchcock movies

Hitchcock blondes

Mothers in Hitchcock movies

National monuments as Hitchcock settings

Theaters as settings in Hitchcock films

Stairs, staircases & levels

Serial killers: Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen & Christie, Ed Gein


Techniques:

Montage theory: Eisenstein, Vertov, & Hitchcock

Match cuts & dissolves

'Tunnel' shots

'Pieta' shots

How to throw a punch


Notes on specific films:

Psycho review

Psycho: influences, sequels, remake, homages

Psycho: Ed Gein & Robert Bloch's novel

The Psycho house: sources and influence

Vertigo & Brian De Palma's Obsession