by stevenderosa | May 5, 2026 | Blogathon Spring 2026
by Joe Trentacoste Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief (1955) may have been dismissed by Hitchcock himself as a “lightweight story,” but D.H Lawrence’s reminder to “trust the tale” encourages us to look deeper than the director’s own assessment. Beneath the glamour of...
by stevenderosa | Apr 30, 2026 | Blogathon Spring 2026
by Taeden Thorpe Revealing Judy’s Heartbreak and the Shift in Audience Empathy Judy Berton’s role in Madeleine Elster’s murder being revealed to the audience shortly after the midpoint of Vertigo rather than near the end shifts our focus from a mystery plot to an...
by stevenderosa | Apr 15, 2026 | Blogathon Spring 2026
by Elijah Lagarde In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), a family is entangled in a conspiracy involving the life of a prime minister and their kidnapped child. They must go to great lengths to reveal the architects of the conspiracy, while...
by stevenderosa | Apr 8, 2026 | Blogathon Spring 2026
by Yecenia Estrada When we think of Notorious, it’s easy to label it simply as a thriller or a spy film. However, as Adrian Martin suggests in “Inside, Around and About Notorious,” the film exceeds a single genre or a closed narrative form. Alfred Hitchcock creates a...
by stevenderosa | Mar 26, 2026 | Blogathon Spring 2026
by Emely Matias A Tale of Shadows and Manipulation Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) is often seen as a ghost story or a critique of patriarchal dominance. But it’s more than that it’s a chilling study of manipulation, identity, and the weight of illusion. Based on...
