HitchCon ‘26 Program
Online • Oct. 3 & 4
With Free Screening Friday, Oct. 2
SPECIAL FREE ONLINE SCREENING
Friday, October 2—4:00 PM Pacific
Family Plot (1976)
Followed by our famed Icebox Conversation. Bring a sleeping bag!
Saturday, October 3
Saturday Morning — 8:00 AM Pacific
Joel Gunz: Welcome and Introduction to Host Elizabeth Bullock
Caroline Young: The Other Vanishing Lady: Monograms and Magic in The Lady Vanishes
Stella Castelli: Clandestine Catalysts: Twin Peaks as a Tale Enabled by Absent Female Bodies
JF Martel: A Dream of Dark and Troubling Things
Kelly Bulkeley: The Gift of David Lynch’s Dream Logic
Roger Luckhurst: Hitchcock’s Homage: The Fake/Real (or Real/Fake) Psychic in Family Plot
Saturday Afternoon — 1:40 PM Pacific
Joel Gunz: Introduction to Host Walter Raubicheck
Steven DeRosa: Scripting the Con: Hitchcock, Lehman, and the Final Wink of Family Plot
Joel Gunz: Family Plot and the Magic of Pure Cinema
Sidney Gottlieb and David Sterritt In Conversation: Family Plot
Saturday Evening — 6:00 PM Pacific
Icebox Conversation
Sunday, October 4
Sunday Morning – 8:00 AM Pacific
Joel Gunz: Introduction to Host Steven DeRosa
Katy Coakley: I Think You’ve Got The Wrong Guy! An Absurdist Approach to Mistaken Identities in North by Northwest and The Big Lebowski
Nick Haeffner: Lost in the Stars: An anti-auteurist approach to the work of David Lynch
Rebecca McCallum: Strangely Familiar: Home Invasion in Shadow of a Doubt
Elizabeth (Beth) Bullock: “This Whole House is a Hotbed of Spies and Saboteurs”: Hitchcockian Farcical Espionage in McGoohan’s The Prisoner
Victoria Nelson in Conversation with Joel Gunz: Pursuit, Paranoia and the Language of Birds
Sunday Afternoon – 12:30 PM Pacific
Joel Gunz: Introduction to Host Elisabeth Karlin
Oisin Queally: The Island That Likes to Be Visited: Hitchcock, Myth and the Phantom Place
Mark W. Padilla: “Well, a Boy’s Best Friend is his Mother”: Musings on How Aeschylus and Eugene O’Neill Nurture the Tragic Expression of Psycho
Richard Gilmore: Hitchcock and the Myth of the Fall
Colleen Glenn: La-La Lynch: Mulholland Drive and the Nightmare Factory