https://www.macguffin.media/profiles daily 0.75 2026-03-18 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/cassidy-alexander monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/8242d27d-dcd7-4b26-afc3-4f9f089087c1/Alexander+3x4.png Profiles - Cassidy Alexander - #hitchcockmask Cassidy Alexander discovered her love for Alfred Hitchcock at the age of seven. Growing up with a father who sold comics, Vargas pinups, vintage pulp and movie memorabilia, sneaking glimpses into worlds beyond her years became second nature. Cassidy holds a B.A. in Radio/Television Production from the University of Central Florida and an A.S. in Film Production Technology from Valencia Community College—a program Steven Spielberg once praised as “one of the best film schools in the country.” She’s currently a staff video editor at Team Coco, where she edits web series and podcast videos for Conan O’Brien, Rob Lowe, Andy Richter, Ted Danson, J.B. Smoove and others. When she’s not editing—or wearing her Hitchcock mask—Cassidy can be found hanging out with her pup. Lady Reville Hitchcock, doing CrossFit, relaxing or spending time with friends. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/richard-allen monthly 0.5 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/1699760079265-9RCB4QCQBKDA0TD15E94/Allen.jpg Profiles - Richard Allen - Richard Allen is Chair Professor of Film and Media Art, Dean of the School of Creative Media, and Director of the Center of Applied Computing and Interactive Media, City University, Hong Kong. His research focuses primarily on the theory, poetics, and aesthetic of film. His books on theory are Projecting Illusion (Cambridge, 1995), Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford, 1997), and Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001). He is widely known as a scholar of Hitchcock and is the author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Iron (Columbia, 1997) and fifteen scholarly articles on the master of suspense, as well as co-editor of three anthologies and the Hitchcock Annual (until 2018). He has also written extensively on Indian Cinema. His book manuscript, Double Trouble: A Poetics of Bombay Cinema, is under review, and his co-edited volume, Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories (Intellect/Orient Blackswan, 2022), was nominated for the Kraszna-Krausz book award 2023. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/rebecca-asghar monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/3012e81d-6131-4af4-970f-e30c0de133b4/Asghar.jpg Profiles - Rebecca Asghar - Born and raised in home Hitchcock’s home district of Leytonstone, East London, UK, Rebecca Asghar is Director of Friends of Alfred, dedicated to presenting, promoting and preserving the work and legacy of their native son. An award-winning artist, Rebecca is a former lawyer who has attained a Diploma in Portraiture at the Heatherley School of Fine Art. She was in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year in 2020 and has appeared in major group art exhibitions in London, including the Ruth Borchard self-portrait prize in 2019. She has also shown at the Art Maze at the Oxo Tower Wharf, at which the first three of her Hitchcock series paintings were displayed. These paintings depict real people instead of actors in stills, as well as a Hitchcock cameo. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/neil-badmington monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/91fe8b89-3d6f-4f9e-8ef3-eb5ae3a03319/Badmington.jpg Profiles - Neil Badmington - Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. Author, Perpetual Movement: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope and Hitchcock’s Magic. Editor, Alfred Hitchcock: Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/robert-bellissimo monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/d54380c9-f584-4d0b-95f6-9bb7890efccf/Bellissimo.jpg Profiles - Robert Bellissimo - The worst thing you can say to Robert is "It's just a movie.” That sense of value imbues his insightful reviews and interviews as host of Robert Bellissimo at the Movies. Robert is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School’s certificate program and of The New School of Drama’s two-year diploma program. He also trained at The Actor’s Temple in London, England. Credits include Private Eyes (TV Series) Robbery (Amazon Prime), Mariner (winner, 10 Best Short Films of Canada, TIFF, 2016), Moose On The Loose (Magnus Theatre), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, Little Foxes, (short film), The Olde Proverb (short film) and Anna (short film, winner, numerous film festival awards). As an acting coach and teacher, Robert has run his own workshops, and has taught at Fraser Studios and Improv Your Acting Studio. Robert has been a cinephile for many years and has always been fascinated by all kinds of movies. He feels that educating people on the importance of how movies reflect our lives is essential. Films open up our hearts, minds and sense of empathy and nothing is more valuable than that! https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/maria-belodubrovskaya monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/612096d5-93d9-476b-a214-2537c7967633/Belodubrovskaya.jpg Profiles - Maria Belodubrovskaya - Maria is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Not According to Plan: Filmmaking under Stalin (Cornell University Press, 2017) and has published articles on film aesthetics, history, theory, and Russian film in Cinema Journal, Film History, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, Slavic Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, KinoKultura, and several edited volumes. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/todd-berliner monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/edf6f233-8110-496a-a226-283fef406827/Berliner.jpeg Profiles - Todd Berliner - Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he teaches film aesthetics, narration, and style and American film history. He is the author of Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema (University of Texas Press, 2010). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/erin-bradfield monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/037547fa-b591-4e98-b779-342d02f8992d/Bradfield+3x4.png Profiles - Erin Bradfield - Erin Bradfield is Teaching Professor in Philosophy at Santa Clara University where she offers courses in Aesthetics, Ethics, Film, and Culture. Her research focuses on the social and political dimensions of Kantian aesthetics. In particular, she works on issues regarding communication, exclusion, and community formation. Her most recent essays address topics in negative aesthetics including ugliness, disgust, and the sublime. She is currently working on a monograph on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/lesley-brill monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/47a0cf7d-2a7b-43f6-add9-1d7cdc4be2ea/Brill.jpg Profiles - Lesley Brill - Lesley Brill’s The Hitchcock Romance—Love and Irony in Hitchcock’s Films is required reading for anyone who’s serious about Hitchcock studies. And, as the title implies, it’s a touchstone for our conference. In addition to his prolific writing on Hitchcock, Brill is Emeritus Professor of English and Film Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, has published four books on filmmakers and cinema, and essays on film, photography, and literature. His most recent books are Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema and The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tifenn-brisset monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/82f4ffdb-3753-430a-a14b-c83f690c8a15/Brisset+3x4.png Profiles - Tifenn Brisset - Tifenn Brisset has a doctorate in philosophy and is a lecturer in film studies in the Language, Literature, Performing Arts, Information and Communication, Journalism Department at Grenoble Alpes University, France. Her doctoral thesis focused on the links between philosophy and the cinema. Her essays on Hitchcock have appeared in several publications, including The Hitchcock Annual, L’Avant-Scène Cinema, LaFuria Umana, Positif, and Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism (forthcoming). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/norman-buckley monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/064d375d-1289-45ae-ad3b-67bab841e482/Buckley.jpg Profiles - Norman Buckley - Norman Buckley is a highly-sought-after, award-winning director whose credits include Pretty Little Liars, Charmed, In the Dark, Zoo, Quantico, Rizzoli and Isles, Chuck, Gossip Girl and The OC. He was co-executive producer/producing director on Sweet Magnolias and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. His TV movie The Pregnancy Project won Best Primetime Program (Special or Movie of the Week) and Best Actress (Alexa Vega) at the 2012 Imagen Awards. He’s been nominated twice for an American Cinema Editors award: in 2003 for Joe and Max, for best-edited motion picture for non-commercial television, and he won the award in 2008 for the pilot of Chuck, for best-edited one-hour series for commercial television. Buckley began working in the industry as an assistant editor on the Oscar-nominated films Tender Mercies, Silkwood and Places in the Heart. As editor, he’s worked with many outstanding directors, including Bruce Beresford, Robert Benton, Mike Nichols, Rob Reiner, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Richard Donner, J.S. Cardone, McG, Doug Liman, and Robert M. Young. He also learned the editing craft from some of the best film editors in the business, including Carol Littleton, Sam O'Steen, William Anderson, and Bob Leighton. Buckley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and studied history at the University of Texas at Arlington, before moving to Los Angeles where he would later graduate from the University of Southern California with a degree in Cinema/Television. He teaches at the University of California Los Angeles film school to both graduates and undergraduates. He was married to the late artist Davyd Whaley and established The Davyd Whaley Foundation, carrying on Davyd’s legacy by supporting Los Angeles area artists with annual grants. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/elizabeth-l-bullock monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c9b07b14-6b35-4163-b58f-e19401df89c1/Bullock.png Profiles - Elizabeth L. Bullock - For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. She is a cinema, art history and humanities instructor at the City Colleges of Chicago and at Dominican University, River Forest. Bullock earned her Humanities M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies program. Her publications include: “Naughts and Crosses: Marital and Cinematic Gamesmanship in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith” in Hitchcock Annual (2021), “Imaginary Women in Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman” in Vertigo 65 (forthcoming 2025) edited by Daniel Varndell, and “More Blessed To Give: Tracking the Reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)” in a forthcoming compilation edited by Robert Kapsis. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/stella-castelli monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/be236b01-5cf7-430e-806b-c98d3c6d2d05/Castelli+3x4.png Profiles - Stella Castelli - Dr. Stella Castelli is a senior lecturer at the English Department of the University of Zurich. She holds a degree in English and American Literature as well as Theory and History of Photography from the University of Zurich. In 2020, she successfully completed her doctoral dissertation titled Death is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion exploring repressions of death and their symptomatic reappearance in contemporary American culture. Her current research engages with mediations of the humorous in literature and media. Further research interests include critical theory, visual culture, the gothic and the aestheticism of camp. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/james-chapman monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a0ad0935-d668-427a-96f8-8520c3559f56/Chapman+4x3.png Profiles - James Chapman - James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester and author of Hitchcock and the Spy Film: Authorship, Genre, National Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2018). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/katy-coakley monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/0c8a1313-bb65-4657-93b5-84b67252eca5/Coakley+3x4.png Profiles - Katy Coakley - Katy Coakley is a graduate student studying Digital Media and Storytelling at Loyola University’s School of Communication in Chicago. She is currently employed as a videographer for the university’s Rambler Productions. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Dominican University in May 2025. Katy also received the university’s outstanding senior awards in both Film Studies and Digital Journalism. Her capstone, “Masquerading Male Depression in the Screwball Comedies,” highlights director Todd Phillips’s portrayal of masculinity in films such as “Old School" and “The Hangover.” When she is not working, Katy, a passionate cinephile, often spends her free time at the movie theatre. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/douglas-a-cunningham monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/5930e08d-3580-459a-94e1-203c2d974d75/Douglas+A.+Cunningham.jpg Profiles - Douglas A. Cunningham - Doug serves as an adjunct professor of film studies and humanities at several universities in the Intermountain West. He’s also the editor of, and the author of two essays for, The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration (Scarecrow, 2011). Cunningham is also the editor of Critical Insights: Alfred Hitchcock (Salem, 2017), for which he also wrote an essay on The Birds. He was also producer and director of Listen, Darkling, a short fiction film produced as a complex tribute to Hitchcock’s Vertigo. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/christopher-daly monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/529ac118-d0c1-4f62-9115-b159ae1dca9e/Daly.jpg Profiles - Christopher Daly - Chris is an actor and producer based in Phoenix, Arizona. An interdisciplinary artist, he often creates intersections where dance meets theatre and movement meets image. He’s participated in several interdisciplinary world premieres, including James Dickey’s Puella, and co-founded several performance groups, including: Improv: local 201; The Movement Consort; and Aurora Mime Theatre. Chris spent ten years teaching creative drama in schools as an artist in education through the Arizona Commission on the Arts before his five-year career creating and presenting interactive educational television via satellite. Outside the studio, he produced educational television shoots in the Grand Canyon and the Amazon jungle. More recently he has produced interactive internal training programs for corporate clients. A voiceover artist, Chris has provided the voice in online programs for a long list of clients, including Coke, Pepsi, Disney Vacations, and Pfizer, and is the longtime voice for Titleist golfballs. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/steven-derosa monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/d398aa99-3824-42ba-958c-e8d2364d26a8/Derosa+3x4.png Profiles - Steven DeRosa - Steven’s approach to his work is rooted in the belief that every story reveals deeper truths about the human condition. His passion lies in uncovering these truths and inspiring others to see the world more reflectively. He is the author of Writing with Hitchcock: The Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and John Michael Hayes. Steven has appeared on-screen in the documentaries Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D: Una Storia Vintage and The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style; and in featurettes on the 4K/UHD releases of To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest. He teaches cinema studies and screenwriting at Mercy University in Westchester County, New York, where he also coordinates their long-running International Film Festival. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/marilyn-fabe-phd monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c16e13ba-cdab-4cb4-8fd7-fc885be7fa8c/Fabe.jpeg Profiles - Marilyn Fabe, PhD - Marilyn teaches courses in the history and aesthetics of the silent film, the history and theory of the sound film, the avant-garde film and auteur courses on Alfred Hitchcock and other directors at U.C. Berkeley. Her book Closely Watched Films, updated for a tenth anniversary edition, focuses on the accomplishments of fifteen film directors, illustrating each director’s contribution to narrative film art. Her recent research involves the connection of the director’s life to his or her films. Her essay, “Shooting to Kill: Hitchcock’s Heroines and the Perverse Scenario” appears in Examining Lives: Self-Reflections in Psychobiography (Oxford University Press, 2015). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tim-gardiner monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/7ead4dd7-0998-4ad5-af08-d8c8fb4c818e/Gardiner.webp Profiles - Tim Gardiner Tim Gardiner holds a doctorate in applied ecology, working in wildlife conservation and research in the UK where he studies the plants and insects of agricultural and coastal environments. Tim has had many peer-reviewed ecology papers published as well as several books. He is also a children’s author, essayist, editor and widely published poet with over 1900 published poems and several poetry collections. Tim is a life-long Bond fan and has had two recent papers published in the International Journal of James Bond Studies. This is his first foray into the study of Alfred Hitchcock’s films. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/theresa-l-geller monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/3cde7c43-17b5-46f0-8b8c-535fd6bfe23e/Geller.png Profiles - Theresa L. Geller - Theresa L. Geller is the author of The X-Files (Wayne State UP, 2016) and editor of Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark (Duke UP, 2022). She teaches film and television studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Geller was recently a Scholar-in-Residence with the Beatrice Bain Research Group at UC Berkeley and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University. Before relocating to the Bay Area, Dr. Geller served as Associate Professor of Film Theory and History at Grinnell College. Her scholarship has appeared in American Quarterly, Camera Obscura, Rhizomes, The Velvet Light Trap, Biography, and Senses of Cinema. She has also contributed essays to volumes such as The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory, East Asian Cinemas, Documenting the Visual Arts, Lady Gaga and Popular Music, Gender After Lyotard, and There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/colleen-glenn monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/9c23bf50-b1ed-410f-ae82-0b99b37399f7/Glenn+3x4.png Profiles - Colleen Glenn - Colleen Glenn is an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston, where she directs the film studies program and teaches film studies courses. Glenn’s research interests include star studies, masculinity studies, and film history. With Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Glenn edited a collection of essays on movie stars entitled ‘Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering’ (Wayne State UP, 2015). Glenn has published articles on Jimmy Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Woody Allen, and Mickey Rourke. She is currently working on a monograph on Jimmy Stewart that deals with his post-WWII films and their relationship to war trauma. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/sidney-gottlieb monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/93fcb59e-e7b5-41bb-8f5c-d455d5aa8563/Gottlieb.png Profiles - Sidney Gottlieb - Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He edits The Hitchcock Annual. His work on Hitchcock includes two volumes of Hitchcock on Hitchcock (1995 and 2015), Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (2003) and, most recently, in collaboration with Donal Martin as co-editor, Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (2021). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/joel-gunz monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/39d1e2de-bb87-41ab-a06b-dc515127716b/Gunz+3x4.png Profiles - Joel Gunz - Host, HitchCon, LynchCon & MacGuffin Film Club Joel Gunz believes that the search for meaning is among the highest of human pursuits, and it’s this impulse that drives his work. He’s a writer, filmmaker, the host of the annual HitchCon and a David Lynch-themed film conference as well as the weekly MacGuffin Film Club. His recent publications include “Hitchcock’s Hermetic Hermeneutics” (Anthology title TBA, David Sterritt, ed., forthcoming 2026), “Travels in Hitchcock’s Multiverse” (Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives, Robert Kapsis, ed., 2025) and “A Comparative Look at Hitchcock’s Murder! and Mary” (Hitchcock Annual, Sidney Gottlieb, ed., 2025). His 2021 film essay Spellbound by L’Amour Fou was selected by several festivals and won Best Short Documentary at the Medusa Film Festival. Joel and his partner, Christy La Guardia, live with their beagle, Charlie, in Seattle, Washington. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/nick-haeffner monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b6fc47f5-1553-418d-a658-6584264b60a9/Haeffner+3x4.png Profiles - Nick Haeffner - Nick Haeffner is the author of the monograph Alfred Hitchcock (2005). He has lectured widely and published several articles and essays on Hitchcock’s work, including book chapters in The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction (eds. Rzepka and Horsley 2011) and Hitchcock’s Moral Gaze (eds. Barton Palmer, Petty, Sanders 2017). While based for most of his career at the Cass School of Art, London Metropolitan University, where he coordinated critical studies for the faculty, he also taught film studies at Birkbeck College/BFI, University of Westminster and Boston University (British Programmes). He is now retired from his university and has returned to his first love, making music. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/alfred-hitchcock monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/85315be2-94c9-4263-84b1-861c7746a588/Hitch%2BReading%2BPsycho%2B1500.webp Profiles - Alfred Hitchcock - Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was a British-born filmmaker widely regarded as one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema, celebrated for his mastery of suspense, psychological tension, and visual storytelling. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he directed more than 50 feature films, including classics such as Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, and North by Northwest, developing a distinctive style marked by meticulous framing, innovative camera techniques, dark humor, and recurring themes of voyeurism, guilt, and mistaken identity. Known as the “Master of Suspense,” Hitchcock transformed thrillers into complex explorations of human fear and desire, while also becoming a cultural icon through his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and his instantly recognizable on-screen persona. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/jeff-hughes monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/36588bdf-0fe3-45d2-99b0-ab440defcfdd/Hughes.jpeg Profiles - Jeff Hughes - Jeff is a graduate student in the Cinema Studies department at New York University, returning to academia after a twenty year absence. In that time he authored four plays, two musicals, and founded Boardwalk Theatre Company, an organization dedicated to after school theater education in underserved communities like Asbury Park, NJ. For 18 years he served as the editor-in-chief and head writer of DaBearsBlog, the nation’s leading Chicago Bears website, which he co-founded in 2005. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/jason-isralowitz monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c117fdc6-db36-4e7d-bd47-8277f399b13c/Isralowitz.png Profiles - Jason Isralowitz - Jason Isralowitz is a partner in the New York office of the law firm Hogan Lovells. A Queens native, Jason graduated from Boston University’s College of Communication with a bachelor’s in journalism and holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has practiced law in Manhattan since 1993. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/robert-kapsis monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/1a31df7b-fd03-4f26-8198-f81d4c544221/Kapsis+3x4.png Profiles - Robert Kapsis - Robert E. Kapsis is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Film Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation (The University of Chicago Press, 1992); the e-book version was published in 2022. Shortly after its release, Kapsis created “Multimedia Hitchcock,” an innovative, interactive software project. Originally designed as a teaching tool for his college courses on Hitchcock, the project expanded into an interactive kiosk shown at MoMA, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and other museums and nonprofit organizations celebrating the Hitchcock Centennial in 1999. Kapsis is also the editor of Nichols and May: Interviews, Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated Edition (2016), Jonathan Demme: Interviews, Charles Burnett: Interviews, and Conversations with Steve Martin; and coeditor (with Kathie Coblentz) of Clint Eastwood: Interviews and Woody Allen: Interviews (2006). Kapsis’s work on Hitchcock and “the Hitchcockian” has been featured in many publications and venues, including the New York Times, Oxford University Press’s American National Biography, American Film, The Sociological Quarterly, Hitchcock Annual, Cineaste, The Nation, and the Village Voice. It also influenced the production of documentaries about Hitchcock, including those for the BBC, PBS’s American Masters series, Universal’s Dial H for Hitchcock: The Genius Behind the Showman, and promotional materials for a Hitchcock stamp from the United States Postal Service. Kapsis’s latest book, Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives, is an anthology conceived and edited by him, sponsored by the BFI, and scheduled for publication by Bloomsbury in February 2026. He is also working on a book about Hitchcock’s posthumous reputation, which Bloomsbury will publish. Leland Faust, his co-author, has been the Chief Executor and Trustee of the Hitchcock Family Trust since 1980. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/elisabeth-karlin monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/38e63d28-05ea-4fa4-b2e4-e469281e7e2c/Elisabeth+Karlin.jpg Profiles - Elisabeth Karlin - Elisabeth Karlin revels in the art of the movies and the life of the theater. She is an award-winning playwright who sometimes scribbles about film. Her plays have been seen on stages in New York and Los Angeles and have been published by Next Stage Press and Smith and Kraus. Her writing on Alfred Hitchcock includes Beyond the Blonde: The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock and Lamb to the Slaughter for the Hitchcock Annual; Things Left Undone: Crimes of Passivity in Vertigo for the Vertigo 65 Conference in Dublin. She has also been a frequent contributor to HitchCon and to The Alfred Hitchcock Geek blog on a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/dona-m-kercher monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/aa9e953d-7ce0-4dd8-b937-d904d0d5e078/Kercher+4x3.png Profiles - Dona M. Kercher - Dona Kercher is Professor emerita of Spanish and Film at Assumption University, Worcester, MA, where she taught Spanish language and culture, including cinema. She is the author of ‘Latin Hitchcock: How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro and Campanella Became Notorious’ (Wallflower/ Columbia UP, 2015) as well as articles on the filmmakers Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Alex de la Iglesia, Pedro Almodóvar, and Santiago Mitre. She has two essays, one on Hitchcock in Spain and another on Hitchcock in Argentina in the forthcoming collection ‘Re-viewing Hitchcock’ (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2025). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/christina-lane monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4e291cd9-b0ae-4edf-a3ff-ae0b005b4cf1/Lane.jpg Profiles - Christina Lane - Christina Lane is the bestselling, Edgar®-Award winning author of Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock. She is Professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami, where she teaches courses in film history, gender, and directors. Other publications include the books Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break and Magnolia as well as articles in Cinema Journal, Feminist Media Histories, the Quarterly Review of Film and Television, Cine-Files, and The Journal of Popular Film and TV. She contributed essays on Alfred Hitchcock's collaborators Joan Harrison and Alma Reville to the volumes Authorship and Film (Routledge 2002) and Hitchcock and Adaptation (with Jo Botting, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She provides commentary for such outlets as the Daily Mail, CrimeReads and AirMail, and has been a featured guest speaker at the Film Forum, on NPR and on Turner Classic Movies. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tony-lee-moral monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/ef0e8710-a962-4843-b71b-21f32d66bd76/Moral.jpg Profiles - Tony Lee Moral - Tony's new book Hitchcock: The Storyboards (Penguin Random House, September 2023) explores the visual design of The 39 Steps through to Torn Curtain. An updated version of The Young Alfred Hitchcock's Moviemaking Master Class (2022) focuses on Hitchcock's influence on a new generation of content creators. He is also author of The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/chris-leech monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/93d479a4-e665-42b0-b917-7854d6184432/Hitchcock+Silhouette+4x3.png Profiles - Chris Leech - Chris is an artist, gardener and musician with the band Printers Bloc. In 2016, he began Welkin Tarot, an exploration of esoteric wisdom through the lens of fine art and popular culture. Having lived in various places in the world, Chris currently resides in his hometown Victoria, BC, with his spouse Deborah. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/h-marshall-leicester monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/6e10e8fd-7369-402e-9080-7162e9fae8ca/Leicester+3x4.png Profiles - H. Marshall Leicester - Marshall is a Professor Emeritus of Literature, UC Santa Cruz and author, What Ought to Scare You: Affect and Horror in the Hollywood Studio System, 1922-1968 (2025, McFarland). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/thomas-leitch monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/600bd0b2-0789-4fcb-ae2a-fec77caadd4b/Leitch+3x4.png Profiles - Thomas Leitch - Thomas Leitch recently retired from the University of Delaware, whose Film Studies program he had directed for thirty years. His extensive writings on Alfred Hitchcock include Find the Director and Other Hitchcock Games (1991), The Encyclopedia of Alfred Hitchcock (2002), A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock (2011), and many essays for The Hitchcock Annual. His most recent books are The Scandal of Adaptation (2023) and Engagements with Adaptation (2025). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/christine-madrid-french monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/3f9d481a-91ab-40d3-83a6-676730b7e300/Madrid+French.png Profiles - Christine Madrid French - Christine Madrid French is a historian, screenwriter and author of the upcoming Alfred Hitchcock and American Architecture: Villain’s Lairs, Skyscrapers, Mansions, and Motels (University of Virginia Press, 2022). Her unproduced screenplay, Piney Croft, a paranormal horror feature set in Florida, was a semi-finalist at the Orlando Film Festival and selected by iHorror Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival Horror Fest, and the Madrid International Film Festival. She currently works as Director of Development with the California Preservation Foundation and is head of Creator Services at LoCo+, a streaming platform featuring local content creators. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/al-magaroulian monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/8c16bdf1-df53-4551-a772-bbf30447ef7a/Magaroulian.png Profiles - Al Magaroulian - An Armenian rug-cutter, Magaroulian is part skunk, part snake-in-the-grass. He is, however, one hell of a writer. While his fallen arches got him out of the draft, they haven't kept him out of Roseland—or away from Rosie. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/paula-marantz-cohen monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/94fb4cf8-3e7d-441a-82b6-48d4dc417580/Marantz+Cohen.png Profiles - Paula Marantz Cohen - Paula Marantz Cohen is Dean of the Pennoni Honors College and Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University. She is the author of six novels and six nonfiction books, including Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism (U of Kentucky Press) and Silent Film and Triumph of the American Myth (Oxford UP). She is also the author of numerous essays in film, culture, literature, and art. She is the host of The Civil Discourse, a TV interview show broadcast on many PBS stations, and the producer and director of the film, Two Universities and the Future of China (available on Youtube). Her latest book is Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation(Princeton UP). https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/rebecca-mccallum monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b8f77148-44c0-4b3c-9872-bf77909bf22d/McCallum+3x4.png Profiles - Rebecca McCallum - Rebecca is a writer, editor, speaker and creator/host of Talking Hitchcock, a podcast that explores the work and the world of her favourite director. She has written at length about Hitchcock’s films both online and in print for many publications including Fangoria, Grim Journal, Hemlock Books and Moviejawn. A curator of screenings and events across the UK, she shares her passion and perspectives on Hitchcock and has programmed a Hitchcock festival entitled The Apartment Trilogy in addition to hosting anniversary screenings of Rear Window, North by Northwest and speaking at the Wide Screen film festival at the National Science and Media Museum. Previously, she has spoken at HitchCon and co-hosted a programme Hitchcock and Me on BBC Radio. Most recently, she has delivered a lecture on the The Absent, Omnipresent Women of Hitchcock with Final Girls Berlin and she is currently immersed in writing her first Hitchcock focused book. Follow Rebecca on Instagram @talkinghitchpod and @pendlepumpkin Read, watch & listen to Rebecca's work https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/pat-mcfadden monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4707d5cd-eb24-426c-9eb6-e1a72e97bae0/McFadden.JPG Profiles - Pat McFadden - 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. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/christopher-mckittrick monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/9671d4ff-09f5-46ef-9724-9999bdcf7bb9/McKittrick+3x4.png Profiles - Christopher McKittrick - Christopher McKittrick is the author of Vera Miles: The Hitchcock Blonde Who Got Away (University Press of Kentucky, 2025), the first book about the Hollywood star of classic films like The Searchers (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), Psycho (1960) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He is also the author of books about popular music, including, Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats (Backbeat Books, 2024), Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City (Post Hill Press, 2019), and Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles (Post Hill Press, 2020). McKittrick has appeared on HLN's How It Really Happened and Fox News Digital and is a regular contributor on podcasts and radio programs concerning film, music and pop culture. In addition to writing, McKittrick has worked in several roles in the entertainment industry, including as the U.S. editor of Creative Screenwriting, the premier screenwriting resource, and as the director of operations of the Visual Effects Society, the global professional honorary society representing visual effects practitioners in the entertainment industry. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/henry-k-miller monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/719c718b-77a5-4705-b035-8b7fcc9ec330/Miller.png Profiles - Henry K. Miller - Henry K. Miller is the author of The First True Hitchcock, published by University of California Press in 2022. His other books are The Essential Raymond Durgnat (as editor) and DWOSKINO: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin (as co-editor). He is a critic for Sight and Sound, and has written for publications including the Times Literary Supplement and MUBI Notebook. He has taught film at the University of Cambridge. He teaches film at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/d-a-miller monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/71088782-47a5-48c6-966d-dac88c2565d5/Miller.jpg Profiles - D. A. Miller - D. A. (David) Miller is John F. Hotchkis Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. His work on Hitchcock includes “Anal Rope’’ and Hidden Hitchcock. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/daisuke-miyao monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4b3c60b6-9a82-4946-9c96-3a5391f0d4f9/Miyao+3x4.png Profiles - Daisuke Miyao - Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Miyao is the author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies (2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (2013), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (2007). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2014) and the co-editor of The World of Benshi (2024) with Michael Emerich, and Transnational Cinematography Studies (2017) with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/sarah-nichols monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/95a33e99-bd20-4450-acba-3c97a191be14/Nichols.jpg Profiles - Sarah Nichols - Sarah Nichols is a poet and essayist who lives and writes in central Connecticut. She is the author of ten chapbooks, including the essay collection Hexenhaus (2020; Milk and Cake Press) and Press Play for Heartbreak (forthcoming, 2021; Paper Nautilus Press), a winner of PNP’s 2020 Vella Chapbook Prize. Film absolutely informs her work as a poet, ranging from a collection about Grey Gardens to the aforementioned Hexenhaus, a collection influenced by the horror film Suspiria. Her film criticism has also appeared in Senses of Cinema. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/mark-w-padilla-phd monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b92bd008-f40e-49dd-b9f1-c15bcbebb8ee/Padilla.jpg Profiles - Mark W. Padilla, PhD - Dr. Mark W. Padilla teaches classics and film at Christopher Newport University in the state of Virginia, where he holds the title Distinguished Professor. Mark completed collegiate work in English and Classics and earned his PhD in Comparative Literature. Containing himself first to scholarly work on Greek literature and philosophy, following a period in academic administration he returned to his comp lit roots in the 2010s, participating in the emerging field of classical reception. His larger project considers the masked presences of classical myth and references to antiquity at large in Hitchcock. He has published three books with Lexington Books and authored related essays. The titles are Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock; Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock’s Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films and (forthcoming) Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Important Film. His essays have appeared in The Hitchcock Annual and The Hitchcockian Quarterly. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/murray-pomerance monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/6fed9b46-7abc-42be-bc06-3d6640be1a05/Pomerance.jpg Profiles - Murray Pomerance - Author of seven acclaimed books on the Master, including The Hitchcock Quartet: An Eye for Hitchcock, A Dream of Hitchcock, A Voyage with Hitchcock and A Silence from Hitchcock. Independent scholar and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/oisin-queally monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/f2558845-bc3d-4705-ad78-2fde2587fc45/Queally+3x4.png Profiles - Oisin Queally - My name is Oisin Queally and I'm an Irish filmmaker from Dublin and a recent graduate of the BA in Film and Broadcasting at TU Dublin. My dissertation, The Evolution of Craft: Alfred Hitchcock's Dual Versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much, explores how Hitchcock reworked style, structure and character across the 1934 and 1956 films. Alongside academic work, I direct short films and music videos, with projects screening at festivals in Ireland and abroad. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/walter-raubicheck monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/91fd4e5c-2675-40ef-bbcf-d9683306bf8d/Raubicheck.jpg Profiles - Walter Raubicheck - 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. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/michelle-risacher monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/bfee2011-a375-4ed5-832c-228498f8d2a5/Risacher.png Profiles - Michelle Risacher - Michelle is an MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, with research interests in feminism, queer theory and the issues of temporality that inflect each. She has presented her scholarship at the undergraduate SCMS conference and the ACM Student Film Conference and Festival, where she was awarded first prize for her essay “Women’s Time: Female Subjectivity in Maya Deren’s Witch’s Cradle.” She earned her BA in Film and Visual Culture from Grinnell College. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/karen-ritzenhoff monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a1443f6b-6afe-4205-924e-a3f5a5447204/Ritzenhoff.png Profiles - Karen Ritzenhoff - Karen is Professor in Communication, as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Central Connecticut State University. In 2021, she coedited and published two books: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness with Renée T. White (2021) and Mediated Terrorism in the 21stCentury (2021) with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell. In 2019, The Handmaid’s Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders (with Janis L. Goldie) and New Perspectives on the War Film (with Clémentine Tholas and Janis L. Goldie) were published. Ritzenhoff has also been teaching as Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University in Spring, 2022. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/william-rothman monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/dee91f39-dade-4e38-be39-be1d2f55b82f/Rothman.png Profiles - William Rothman - Founding editor of the “Harvard Film Studies” series and author of the pioneering studies Hitchcock—The Murderous Gaze and The “I” of the Camera as well as Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock. Professor of Cinematic Arts at Miami University. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/barry-sandler monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/7236a00f-aae0-4572-a4f0-fd69038d5f64/Sandler+3x4.png Profiles - Barry Sandler - With BA and MFA film degrees from UCLA, Barry Sandler has written screenplays for numerous motion pictures, including the transgressive psychosexual cult classic Crimes of Passion (1984), The Mirror Crack’d (1980), Evil Under the Sun (1982), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) and Gable and Lombard (1976). He also wrote Making Love (1982), the first major studio film to present a positive portrayal of LGBTQ men and women. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/nathan-seckinger monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/steven-smith monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/642472e7-5d8c-4810-99d2-3b81cbe39bca/Smith+3x4.png Profiles - Steven Smith - Steven C. Smith is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer, author and speaker who specializes in Hollywood history and profiles of contemporary filmmakers. A four-time Emmy nominee and sixteen-time Telly Award winner, Steven has produced and written over 200 documentaries. They include The Sound of a City: Julie Andrews Returns to Salzburg; The Lure of the Desert: Martin Scorsese on Lawrence of Arabia; A Place for Us: West Side Story’s Legacy; and Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood. He is the author of three acclaimed books: Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship & Film Scores That Changed Cinema (Oxford), Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer (Oxford), and A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (UC Press). He has twice won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award, and the Herrmann biography was the main research source for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/sebastian-smoliski monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/3ac06cb5-41f5-4456-ba06-5d3ce05b268a/Smolin%CC%81ski.png Profiles - Sebastian Smoliński - Sebastian teaches film studies in Warsaw, Poland, and is co-producer of the podcast Foreign Correspondents: Deeper into Hitchcock. His presentation will focus on Hitchcock's adaptation of Polish ex-patriot Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent in light of today’s national and international crises. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/evangeline-spachis monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/91520f1e-25de-41ba-b236-67643cbdee3d/Spachis.jpg Profiles - Evangeline Spachis - Evangeline is an M.A. scholar in Film Curation. As a freelance film programmer at Leeds International Film Festival, she specialises in programmes that promote queer readings and queer representation in horror. She has had a lifelong love of Hitchcock, referencing the lauded Hitchcock Geek in her undergraduate dissertation. She hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/walter-srebnick monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b6917c8d-f676-4c6c-a56f-278517906f9c/Srebnick.jpeg Profiles - Walter Srebnick - Walter is Professor Emeritus of English and Film at Pace University. He has written on literature and film, and is the coeditor of Hitchcock’s Rereleased Films and coauthor of Scripting Hitchcock, both with Walter Raubicheck. He is currently an educator at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/marc-strauss-phd monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/fcbc521c-4578-46fc-a40f-509a1b966ddd/Strauss.jpg Profiles - Marc Strauss, Ph.D. - Marc Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Strauss has taught all levels of studio ballet, jazz, and ballroom and theory classes in the history of the musical, dance history and appreciation, dance in world cultures, the creative process, and the aesthetics of movement. He has studied, performed, taught, and choreographed in a variety of dance styles at the regional, national and international level since the 1980s. Specialized interests include Broadway and Hollywood musicals, dance criticism, dance on film, aesthetics, George Balanchine, Astaire and Rogers, and Alfred Hitchcock. Dr. Strauss is author of Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Films (2004; McFarland), Hitchcock’s Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen (2016; McFarland) and, most recently, Discovering Musicals: A Liberal Arts Guide to Stage and Screen (McFarland; 2019). He’s also the lead author (with Myron Howard Nadel) of the university text Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age (2012; Princeton Book Company) and co-editor/co-author of the third edition of The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity (2014; Princeton Book Company), also with Mr. Nadel. He and his artist wife, Sarah Riley, are retired and live on the Outer Cape of Massachusetts with their mini-schnauzer Gracie. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/polly-thompson monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/f05f7e64-2fce-46f3-baad-f15c2d7c5494/Thompson.jpg Profiles - Polly Thompson - Polly Thompson has worked as an editor and writer in Vancouver, Ottawa, Belleville and Toronto, first in newspapers and then in medical periodicals and research institutes. In 2015 and 2016 she presented at international conferences on Virginia Woolf and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Since 2017, her personal research interest has been Alfred Hitchcock. She lives in Toronto, Canada. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/patricia-white monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/9242f530-a312-4086-8f65-634cb33578c3/White.jpg Profiles - Patricia White - Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Rebecca (2021; Bloomsbury), Women’s Cinema/World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (2015; Duke University Press) and Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (1999; Indiana University Press). She is co-author with Timothy Corrigan of The Film Experience (2018; Bedford St. Martins), now in its 6th edition. White serves on the boards of Women Make Movies and Film Quarterly and the editorial collective of Camera Obscura. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/maurice-yacowar monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/7115c46e-368b-4fc6-baf3-748456d4c8e4/Yacowar.png Profiles - Maurice Yacowar - In 1968 Maurice launched film studies at Brock University. He served as dean at Brock, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and The University of Calgary, where he retired in 2006 as Professor Emeritus (English and Film Studies). His books include Hitchcock’s British Films (Shoestring, 1977; Wayne State U revised edition 2010) and critical studies of Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Paul Morrissey, Tennessee Williams, the British artist/novelist John Bratby and The Sopranos. His most recent books are Reading Shtisel and After Shtisel, an episode-by-episode analysis of the Israeli TV series. He provided the Criterion laser-disc commentary on Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Morrissey’s Dracula and Frankenstein films. He writes occasional film analyses on yacowar.blogspot.com. He now lives in Victoria, BC. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/caroline-young monthly 0.5 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/1766371745906-3AJCFBMK6IBDEEAL5J0Z/Young+4x3.png Profiles - Caroline Young - Caroline Young is a writer from Edinburgh, Scotland specializing in pop culture and classic cinema. She is the author of Hitchcock’s Heroines (Insight Editions), which explores the legacy of Hitchcock’s leading ladies, their costumes and their relationship with the director. She is also the author of Single & Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman (University of Press of Kentucky), and Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror (Bear Manor Media), which was named as the Daily Mail’s book of the week and nominated for both a Rondo Hatton Award 2023 and the 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award. https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/HitchCon+21+Speaker monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/HitchCon+Advisory+Board+Member monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/The+Hitchcockian+Quarterly+Author monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/HitchCon+23+Speaker monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/HitchCon+22+Speaker monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/profiles/tag/HitchCon+25+Speaker monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/98c080c4-e68e-4859-aad3-3c7cdc061d7a/Hitchcockian%2BLogo%2BBrown.png https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/book-review-haunted-by-vertigo monthly 0.5 2025-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a03491ac-8ba3-4a7f-81eb-4c3a15de5e12/Vertigo%2BBook%2Bon%2BLissajous%2BSpiral.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now, edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin (John Libbey Publishing, Ltd.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c61227a4-a6b9-4f48-a8b3-2065a5a5ece2/%E2%80%9CIo+Recognised+by+Her+Father%E2%80%9D+by+Victor+Honor%C3%A9+Janssens.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out “Io Recognised by Her Father” by Victor Honoré Janssens (public domain). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/7ebf41ad-612c-4806-85a9-c117419e542f/Vertigo-Scottie%2Bdangles.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out Scottie (James Stewart) hangs above a forced perspective chasm. (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a95aea5f-5d80-4c9d-9651-25d3a614e369/Vertigo-Scottie%2B%2Bstepladder.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out Corseted Scottie tentatively ascends the stepladder. (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/9db7400e-7d8a-4824-8f54-651d09318bee/Vertigo-Scotties%2BBoner.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out Scottie’s arousal upon Judy’s final transformation is, well, manifest. (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/e03d9c0b-e63c-4a0d-9d16-11cbf2a41834/Vertigo-Madeleines%2Bdouble.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Book Review: “Haunted by Vertigo” - Make it stand out Judy confronts her double, the real Madeleine Elster, for the only time in the movie. (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/a-flusky-lesson-in-love monthly 0.5 2025-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/ec331784-3965-4d19-a18b-ae9b1c60cadb/Under%2BCapricorn%2BHattie%2Bin%2Bthe%2BKitchen.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - A Flusky Lesson in Love - Make it stand out Lady Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman) brings order to the kitchen at Minyago Yugilla. (Warner Bros.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/2c40ddcb-d708-4c96-a8ed-6107379a27d4/Under%2BCapricorn-Sam+Flusky+eturns+Hattie%E2%80%99s+touch.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - A Flusky Lesson in Love - Make it stand out Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten) returns Hattie’s touch. (Warner Bros.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/03a3e8ea-14a1-4266-aa49-721408dd1029/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-03-26%2Bat%2B4.58.38%2BPM.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - A Flusky Lesson in Love - Make it stand out Hattie Regards herself in a makeshift mirror. (Warner Bros.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/127cf169-88d3-4981-9118-903de6e5e103/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-03-26%2Bat%2B5.32.49%2BPM.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - A Flusky Lesson in Love - Make it stand out Sam, Hattie and Charles, their love and friendship reaffirmed after trials by fire. (Warner Bros.) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/right-from-the-start monthly 0.5 2025-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b5ee5427-8fd9-4869-beb8-10ab2934fd00/Pleasure%2BGarden%2BPoster%2BItaly.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Right from the Start - Make it stand out Italian publicity poster for The Pleasure Garden (1925). © ITV plc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/12586c91-29db-41b7-960a-df9b74660119/Pleasure%2BGarden%2BJill%2BCloseup.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Right from the Start - Make it stand out Jill Cheyne arrives in the big city. (BFI Films) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/664e74cf-a320-4f22-95a9-7a870553357a/Pleasure%2BGarden%2BPatsy%2BJuggling%2BWolves%2B.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Right from the Start - Make it stand out Patsy, juggling wolves at The Pleasure Garden Theater. (BFI Films) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4c846ee0-3226-4c8c-876a-362c1cd28ac1/Pleasure%2BGarden%2BHugh%2Band%2BPatsy%2BMeet%2BCute.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Right from the Start - Make it stand out Hugh and Patsy meet cute, with the dog’s approval. (BFI Films) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/748c52f0-1cf2-4dbb-ab09-39c5d59c1eda/Pleasure%2BGarden%2BLevet%2BBored.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Right from the Start - Make it stand out Levet grows bored with Patsy’s religious values. (BFI Films) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/there-is-no-i-in-auteur-theory monthly 0.5 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/07bd1fb2-c9db-44c5-b163-51370929637f/Hitchcock+Family+Dogs+and+Joan+Psychedelic.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - There’s No “I” in Auteur Theory - Make it stand out Alfred Hitchcock in 1939 with some of his chief collaborators: (left) Joan Harrison, (right) young Patricia Hitchcock, Alma Hitchcock and their terriers. (Bettmann Archive.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/d523098f-9eac-4bca-9fed-840086861e3f/The+Wrong+Man-You+realize+what+you%27ve+done+to+my+wife.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - There’s No “I” in Auteur Theory - Make it stand out In The Wrong Man, Manny Balestraro (Henry Fonda) can only ask, impotently: “You realize what you've done to my wife?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c1a224da-2a77-4581-b403-d969b29d56fb/Blackmail-The+Artist+guides+Alice%E2%80%99s+hand.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - There’s No “I” in Auteur Theory - Make it stand out The Artist (Cyril Richard) guides Alice’s hand (Anny Ondra) to produce a work that expresses his overt and, arguably, her covert sexuality in Blackmail (1929). Credit: KL Studio Classics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/55778259-415c-46de-81dc-09e131e64adb/Strangers+on+a+Train-Bruno+reaches+into+a+storm+drain.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - There’s No “I” in Auteur Theory - Make it stand out In Strangers on a Train (1951), Bruno reaches into a storm drain to retrieve a cigarette lighter. Whose point of view is this? I like to imagine it’s that of a little sewer rat, munching on a kernel of popcorn, taking in this unexpected bit of theater on his front porch—on which we, the audience, have been invited to briefly sit. (Warner Home Video.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/e0fe9fb2-5c26-4cdf-ac38-60968240a1ff/Picasso+Nude+Woman.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - There’s No “I” in Auteur Theory - Make it stand out Nude Woman, Standing, Pablo Picasso, 1912. (Moma.org) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/needle-in-a-hay-stack monthly 0.5 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/abb44e82-1bfb-4adb-a459-8a646c16b01e/Crazy+Wall+Hard+Angle+small.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Needle in a Hay-stack - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4fe7d244-ff8c-4c27-82e8-73cc9833c2fa/Crazy+Mahon+small.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Needle in a Hay-stack - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c7c1562c-b4d8-4aec-b137-09018c962542/Crazy+Crippen+1+small.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Needle in a Hay-stack - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/74b46059-195d-4147-b254-e64d9821cbde/Crazy+Thorwald+small.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Needle in a Hay-stack - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/049a8682-6431-499b-b774-208e24e491f9/Crazy+Bywater+small.png THQ | Issue #1 (April - June, 2022) - Needle in a Hay-stack - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-1/category/Issue+%231+%28April+-+June%2C+2022%29 monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2 daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/98c080c4-e68e-4859-aad3-3c7cdc061d7a/Hitchcockian%2BLogo%2BBrown.png https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/farewell-ken-mogg monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c017abf7-069f-4163-bf20-3e85b1f41a83/Mogg%2BAlfred%2BHitchcock%2BStory.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Farewell, Ken Mogg - Make it stand out The Alfred Hitchcock Story, Titan Books, First Edition, 2008 https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/hitch-visits-tex-and-jinx-show monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/video-frenzy-scored-with-henry-mancinis-original-recording monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/2ed344a8-f46a-4f2b-9de5-861f52fc7a33/Hitch+Mancini+Frenzy+Alone.jpeg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - VIDEO: Frenzy, Scored with Henry Mancini's Original Recording https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/498df45e-acd7-4cba-8dcd-7b109af29acb/Back+of+Hitch+Head+with+Mancini.jpeg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - VIDEO: Frenzy, Scored with Henry Mancini's Original Recording https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/30f89003-111f-4f31-8dc8-f338b8227b85/Mancini+Lips+Pursed.jpeg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - VIDEO: Frenzy, Scored with Henry Mancini's Original Recording https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/blind-mans-bluff monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/fe5b4e78-2755-4196-9646-006d67f8fe50/Tarot+Header+Image+2.png THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/7eb90e24-2305-4a49-8153-2675fc391471/4.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 4 of Knives Rebecca Anxiety; mental duress; obligation; self-doubt; feeling stuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4110e0ab-9c86-403d-a4bd-29336f99b005/17.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - XVII The Star/The Starlet Grace Kelly Renewal; unexpected attention; help; hope; engagement with the anima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/57aa68b0-e6e3-41e0-b4a4-3895222caa86/16+tower+vertigo.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - XVI The Tower Vertigo Disaster; madness; folly; trauma; revelation; the destruction of false realities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/2110a0c0-c40e-48e2-b1df-539cd956760b/8b.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 8 of Knives The Paradine Case Paralysis; chimeras; self-abuse; the misuse of power; misplaced and self-serving heroics; repressed sexuality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a0f0c772-ad1a-4145-b888-4fe73095b69d/12.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - Queen of Gems Kim Novak Frail actress; sought direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/f70d4835-b3b8-4834-9a1f-4f13e70959c1/7.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 7 of Cups Vertigo Fantasy; delusion; terror; identity issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/c1a4f5ad-2824-4f05-a7c6-1d1389bb4835/8+Spellbound.png THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 8 of Clubs Spellbound Infatuation; reflexivity; fear; projection; obsession; resentment; subconscious motivation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/ebbbbb1a-bc30-4562-9337-7fbe33abca12/10+of+Knives.png THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 10 of Knives Psycho Fatality; ruin; inability to cope; getting lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/faceb458-704a-4293-8e26-aaa39eee9489/8.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - 8 of Cups Foreign Correspondent Travel; escape; courage; self-discovery; maturing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/bb6a15b3-5b0e-4ea2-b91e-287364158a0f/sun+19+nbnw.jpg THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Man’s Bluff - XIX, The Sun North by Northwest Success, positivity, fun, wit, vitality. https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/blind-justice monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/6574f1de-a2c9-4e97-b211-cc109e083d34/Manny%2BAnimated%2BGif%2Bcompressed.gif THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Justice - Make it stand out Manny Balestrero with his “lookalike,” Charles James Daniell. (Getty Images and Life magazine.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/0c7eadf8-084c-4aa3-a2b3-f45f97e6c5f4/Publicity+Still+The+Wrong+Man.png THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Justice - Make it stand out Publicity still for The Wrong Man. (Warner Brothers) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/92b6559f-003d-4d96-b51d-bf61e898087c/Manny+Balestrero+on+To+Tell+the+Truth.png THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Blind Justice - Make it stand out Balestrero (far right) on To Tell the Truth, January 15, 1957. (Game Show Network) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/the-shadow-in-to-catch-a-thief monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/4fa3d3af-b97f-48d1-8147-a625f588fa6d/Gif%2BRobie%2BRoof%2B1.gif THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - The “Shadow” in To Catch a Thief - Make it stand out (To Catch a Thief (1955) © Paramount Pictures; C. G. Jung, World History Archive/Ann Ronan Collection/age fotostock. Animation by Joel Gunz.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/2ef7f6ce-3979-4e4f-83a4-b012a421df58/Screen%2BShot%2B2023-01-30%2Bat%2B8.36.00%2BPM.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - The “Shadow” in To Catch a Thief - Make it stand out Publicity materials consistently depicted Robie as a shadowy figure, even minimizing Cary Grant’s bankable face. (Paramount Pictures) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/134436c3-2372-42c7-9b3c-85cafeb39dbf/TCaT%2BExhibitor%27s%2BInstructions.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - The “Shadow” in To Catch a Thief - Make it stand out Exhibitors materials. (Paramount Pictures) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/suicide-at-the-hotel-empire monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/afe1b8c8-bfb3-413b-9297-5f7ae27ad2d5/Zurfluh%2Bgif%2B4%2BCompressed.gif THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Suicide at the Hotel Empire - Make it stand out (The San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of Christine Madrid French. Animation by Joel Gunz.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/6c831538-80fe-4524-8c32-7b7ce6b1cf98/Hotel%2BEmpire%2BClipping.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Suicide at the Hotel Empire - Make it stand out (The San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of Christine Madrid French.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/a39c074a-c8b3-4117-adb5-a3a91669438c/Zurfluh%2BDeath%2BCertificate.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Suicide at the Hotel Empire - Make it stand out Helen Zurfluh’s death certificate. (Courtesy of Christine Madrid French.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/b2e0eef5-9810-4bce-8327-4596ac8a8321/Hotel%2BEmpire%2BComposite.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Suicide at the Hotel Empire - Make it stand out Judy on the street, where Zurfluh landed. She also appears in the window above. (Composite image from Vertigo. Design and additional photography by Joel Gunz.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/1e336e17-5f1b-4eb1-88c8-e11153c6d3f8/Hitchcock+directing+Kim+Novak+as+Judy+Barton.webp THQ | Issue #2 (February, 2023) - Suicide at the Hotel Empire - Make it stand out Hitchcock directing Kim Novak as Judy Barton. 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(Joel Gunz) https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-2/category/Issue+%232+%28February+2023%29 monthly 0.5 https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-3 daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/98c080c4-e68e-4859-aad3-3c7cdc061d7a/Hitchcockian%2BLogo%2BBrown.png https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-3/alfred-hitchcock-and-the-art-of-the-story monthly 0.5 2026-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/5fdd2399-4224-4a13-9db3-7eca70a4f029/Hitchcock%2Breading%2Bto%2Bhis%2Bgranddaughters%2BMary%2BAlma%2BO%27Connell%2Band%2BTerry%2BO%27Connell_.webp THQ | Issue #3 (September, 2023) - Alfred Hitchcock and the Art of the Story - Make it stand out By introducing his granddaughters—Mary Alma O'Connell and Terry O'Connell—to fine literature, Hitch models the wholesome upbringing every young person deserves. https://www.macguffin.media/hitchcockian-quarterly/issue-3/sir-hitch-and-uncle-walt-feud-what-feud monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65504558fdcc0c0bcf179dec/bb7ad0ee-d51b-4835-80ba-9bc644d07dd9/Mickey%2Band%2BHitch%2BFantasia.webp THQ | Issue #3 (September, 2023) - Sir Hitch and Uncle Walt: Feud? 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