A B O U T
The films of Alfred Hitchcock seem to have a permanent place in American cultural and cinematic history, and I would argue rightfully so. He is a common topic to turn to when discussing auteur directors, film history, suspense, and psychoanalysis. His visual style is very distinct; close-ups, subjective camerawork, unusual camera angles, and the list goes on. All of the visual choices that Hitchcock makes contribute to the overall reading and effect of the film. The aim of this website is to explore the visual choices made in three of Hitchcock's most well known works- Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho- and analyze how these choices affect the film and the film's viewer.

As for me, I am a student at Southwestern University, in my junior year at the time of authoring this website. I have an affinity towards film, and while I have not produced any published academic work on the subject, I have an aspiration to do so later in life. At the very least, I want to involve myself with film. You can contact me via email by clicking here, or the link found at the bottom of every page.

My knowledge about psychoanalsysis and other visual theories have largely come from my Visual Communications course, which this project is a part of, and other various film classes. The texts that we have used in this course are Gillian Rose's Visual Methodologies and Jonathan Bignell's Media Semiotics: An Introduction.