MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
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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

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