Pat McFadden looks at cinema as civilization's most wondrous cave drawings.  Growing up in Manhattan, he scoured television listings and theater schedules in an effort to see every Alfred Hitchcock film, and many others that got in the way.  After graduating from the High School of Performing Arts, he abandoned drama for film at Emerson College in Boston. His senior student film there, "Equilibrium-ness," earned both a Student Emmy and a regional Student Academy Award. He then transplanted himself to Los Angeles, where he worked several years as an Assistant Film Editor, notably on HBO tele-features. Ill-suited to feast or famine gig-employment, Pat switched to office work, and was an executive assistant at Walt Disney Imagineering for 23 years. Pat is honored to have been a contributing editor and creative consultant for Joel Gunz’s Alfred Hitchcock Geek Facebook Page, and an associate producer for Good Evening: an Alfred Hitchcock Podcast, where he was referred to as “The Man Who Knows Exactly Enough.” He’s author of “Sir Hitch and Uncle Walt: Feud? What Feud?” in The Hitchcockian Quarterly, 2023.

Poet & Essayist

Author and Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies at Christopher Newport University

Independent scholar and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Says Walter Raubicheck, “I love to watch, think about, talk about, and write about movies! And I find the greatest satisfaction doing those things about Hitchcock's films.” Walter is professor of English at Pace University in New York. He is the co-author with Walter Srebnick of Scripting Hitchcock (2011) and co-editor, with Srebnick, of Hitchcock’s Re-released Films: From Rope to Vertigo (1991). More recently, he edited Hitchcock and the Cold War: New Essays on the Espionage Films, 1956-1969. A playwright, he debuted The New Norman, a play about the making of Psycho, at HitchCon ‘22. In addition to his work on Hitchcock, he has published essays on twentieth-century authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Dashiell Hammett and G. K. Chesterton.

Professor in Communication, as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Central Connecticut State University

Author, Professor of Cinematic Arts

Author & Professor Emeritus of English and Film at Pace University

Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Dance, Southeast Missouri State University