FILM 402 - Great Directors: Hitchcock

5 credit hours

A study of perhaps the most popular of great directors, one of the central figures in the auteur theory of film authorship, and the creator of a wide range of film types, from his early comedies and mysteries produced in England, to masterpieces of suspense and thrillers bordering on the horror genre. The course will include Hitchcock’s relationship to his actors, his theories of emotional stimulation, his use of storyboards, and his editing genius, considered by many the finest in the history of film. ST