ENGL 373 - Hitchcock

FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2011 and alternate years

Prerequisite: Junior or senior majors, or sophomores with ENGL 299.An intensive survey of the films of Alfred Hitchcock: this course covers all of his major and many of his less well-known films. It supplements that central work by introducing students to several approaches to film analysis that are particularly appropriate for studying Hitchcock. These include biographical, auteur, and genre-based interpretation, psychological analyses, and dominant form theory through the study of novel-to-film adaptations.Adams.