Hitchcock
Several alternate endings were considered for this film, including one that would have shown the Golden Gate Bridge completely covered by ravens
The Birds
In Blow Out, Brian De Palma uses split screens and this other technique to shatter the immersive illusion of cinema
Split diopter
This is the name for the purging of alleged homosexuals from their government jobs during the Cold War
The Lavender Scare
This is a branch of film theory concerned with signs, signifiers, signifieds, and referents
Semiotics
A visit to Club Silencio
Mulholland Drive
This was the second of three adaptations that Hitchcock made of stories by Daphne du Maurier, the first being Jamaica Inn and the last being The Birds
Rebecca
This film was shot during the Cuban Missile Crisis, so the actors infused their performances with even more humor than was necessary to lessen the tension on set
Charade
The therapeutic model of mental health care in the 1940s favored this school of clinical psychology
Psychoanalysis
Robert Burks frequently collaborated with Hitchcock in this role, whom Koszarski claims in “The Men with the Movie Cameras” is the real auteur of any film
Cinematographer
Doris Day never stops singing
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The violins in the most iconic scene of this Hitchcock film later inspired the musical score for Jaws
Psycho
The screenplay for what became this movie originally started as a spinoff of the director’s famous television series, with supporting character Audrey Horne as the lead
Mulholland Drive
The United Nations is comprised of the General Assembly and this other body, which consists of ten rotating members and five permanent members
The Security Council
Jennifer Lynn Stoever argues that the widespread availability of audiovisual recording technologies in the 1980s ushered in this new stage of Baudrillardian anxiety
The culture of the copy
Strangers meet and flirt on a train, but it’s not the movie you think
North by Northwest
Second cameraman Irmin Roberts invented the now-famous “trombone shot” for this Hitchcock movie to convey a sense of dizziness—quite a feat considering that he was uncredited when the movie was released
Vertigo
Throughout multiple vignettes that take place in various global locales, Death conquers all in this silent narrative film by Fritz Lang
Destiny
This former Big 5 production studio has survived and thrived since 1912, when it was founded by producer Adoph Zukor, and has given us such major American pictures as The Godfather, Friday the 13th, and, most relevantly for us, Vertigo
Paramount
Montages of monuments and destinations, hectic street life, and Americans interacting with a foreign mise-en-scéne all provide the narrative logic to this kind of gaze that we see most clearly in The Man Who Knew Too Much
The tourist gaze
A risqué game involving an orange
Charade
Hitchcock gave actress Georgine Darcy complete freedom to choreograph her own dance moves for this film, with the only restriction being a ban on taking professional dance lessons so she would maintain the imprecision of an amateur ballerina
Rear Window
She directed the short silent film “The Consequences of Feminism,” a parody of what will happen to the world if those pesky women get any power
Alice Guy Blaché
This tactic of domestic containment mandated that women must excite men’s sexual appetites without satisfying them—a line that the directors during Code-era Hollywood were especially good at walking
Sexual brinksmanship
In “Directors are Dead,” Alfred Hitchcock argues that this hybrid figure is the ultimate ideal for making great films
The writer-producer
Hitchcock teams up with a master surrealist
Spellbound