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February 05, 2006

Hitchcock Syllabus

James Stewart in Vertigo

Browsing through online syllabi can be fun; also interesting as they can give you a snapshot of what college students are learning. And some class webpages are just downright interesting, like this site/syllabus for Dr. Glen Johnson's Hitchcock class at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Tons of cool and enlightening stuff here, especially an extensive gallery of framegrabs from Hitchcock's films, including the criss-cross sequence from Strangers on a Trains, Hitchcock's mothers, and how Hitchcock characters throw a punch (usually straight at the camera). Sounds like an interesting class.

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