Habitat Film Club presents "Hitchcock and his Influence" a workshop by Prof. Richard Allen at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 11th to 22nd January 2014

Time : 
Monday to Friday : 6:30 pm 
Saturday and Sunday : 10:30 am onwards

Entry : 
Fees : 
For Habitat Film Club members and students - Rs. 6000 (on validation of Id's) 
For non-members - Rs. 9000
Tel: 91-11-43663333, Extn. 3093

Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : Habitat Film Club presents 'Hitchcock and his Influence' by Prof. Richard Allen, Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies, NYU and author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony
Richard Allen is an authority on Hitchcock. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony, and more than a dozen scholarly articles on Hitchcock. His is editor of the Hitchcock Annual, the journal of Hitchcock Studies, and three volumes of essays on the director.

Course
No director in world cinema has had anything like the influence of Alfred Hitchcock. Some would put this down to Hitchcock’s penchant for self-publicity, but this course argues that the influence is deeper: it resides in Hitchcock’s particular approach to story-telling in film that combines a highly sophisticated and self-conscious understanding of the art of film with the idioms of popular melodrama. Hitchcock’s appeal was thus to the popular audience and to the cinephile alike. He became the exemplary “auteur” or film author, first for the young French cineaste’s of the New Wave and then for subsequent generation of directors working at the intersection of art and popular culture.
This course will examine the nature of Hitchcock’s achievement by exploring the major works and modeling Hitchcock’s influence upon successive generations of film-makers whose work bears his imprint: film-makers of the French New Wave and European Art Cinema; Brian de Palma and Pedro Almodovar two of the most important Hitchcockian directors; popular American cinema, the American horror film, and post-modern American cineastes, such as Lynch and Fincher. The focus of the class will be upon the detailed examination of film form and film style. No prior study of film is necessary in order to take this class.

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