9. Alfred Hitchcock

MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-011F13 Instructor: David Thorburn Hitchcock's style dovetails with the Hollywood system's imposed constraints. Survey his career (Silent Era through the 1960s), method as a fastidious technician. Key themes, such as confinement and authority, demonstrated in Strangers on a Train clip. 00:00 OCW Intro 00:25 Hitchcock and "the genius of the system" 12:16 An anecdote 18:14 Hitchcock's career 34:05 Hitchcock the technician 40:32 Themes ("the double man") and Strangers on a Train License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu