What is this book?
Broadly, my hope is that this Scalar book will serve as a videographic companion to François Truffaut's Hitchcock by:
- Translating the conversation between Truffaut and Hitchcock into moving images and sounds
- Moving their conversation beyond the limitations of the written word
- Challenging their understandings of/discovering new things about Hitchcock’s work
- Being a pedagogical tool for those teaching Hitchcock and Hitchcock
- Prompting new conversations about their conversation
Background
This book previously took the form of a website. I began the project in 2018 as an independent study at Middlebury College under the supervision of Christian Keathley. That website (www.videographichitchcock.com) is now a living archive of all video essays published about the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
My knowledge of videographic criticism stems largely from work done by Keathley and Jason Mittell, with whom I studied the subject in the course Videographic Film & Media Studies in the fall of 2017. My introduction to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Hitchcock came during that same semester, under the tutelage of John Bertolini in his course, The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock.