HitchCon ‘25:

A CENTURY OF HITCHCOCK

Third day added!
October 3-5, 2025 • Online

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One hundred years ago, Alfred Hitchcock launched a directing career that changed the course of cinema. Join an international lineup of authors, educators and filmmakers for a three-day weekend of talks, panels and audience discussion examining Hitchcock’s films and their impact then, now and on what lies ahead.

HitchCon ‘25: What’s in store

This year, HitchCon goes online to examine Hitchcock’s influence on directors from Almodóvar to Kubrick to Lynch and his imprint on films and TV from The Conversation to Severance and The Substance. Talks will highlight Hitchcock’s impact abroad and offer fresh takes on theater, class, camp and Pure Cinema. Authors will preview new books on Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann and a new Vera Miles biography.

We’ll also celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Pleasure Garden with a fresh look at Hitchcock’s first film and benefit from close readings of North by Northwest and both versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much. Sessions will reassess Hitchcock’s legacy through Buddhist philosophy and mid-century psychology. A Century of Hitchcock will prove that his body of work is indeed “always green, ever living” and continues to provoke new questions, offering delights and insights that will serve humankind into the next century.

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Meet Your HitchCon ‘25 Speakers

  • Joel Gunz

    Joel Gunz

    ORGANIZER & HOST
    What is Pure Cinema?
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  • Elizabeth Bullock

    Elizabeth Bullock

    CO-HOST
    Vertigo Bardo: Spectral Rebirth and Death in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
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  • Steven DeRosa

    CO-HOST
    Beneath the Masks: Love, Identity, and Class Divide in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief
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  • Sidney Gottlieb

    Sidney Gottlieb

    CO-HOST
    Introduction to The Pleasure Garden
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  • Elisabeth Karlin

    Elisabeth Karlin

    CO-HOST
    A Sea Change: Is Lifeboat Improving with Age?
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  • Pat McFadden

    Pat McFadden

    CO-HOST
    Chadwick and Danvers: Hiring the Help in Hitchcock
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  • Walter Raubicheck

    Walter Raubicheck

    CO-HOST
    Something’s R.O.T.ten in the State of South Dakota: Roger Thornhill’s Matchbook Redemption
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  • Cassidy Alexander

    Cassidy Alexander

    SPEAKER
    #hitchcockmask
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  • Erin Bradfield

    Erin Bradfield

    SPEAKER
    “Is it Future or Is it Past?”: Trauma, Repetition, and Tragic Heroes in Vertigo and Twin Peaks
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  • Tifenn Brisset

    Tifenn Brisset

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock in L'Avant-Scène Cinéma
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  • Stella Castelli

    Stella Castelli

    SPEAKER
    Notes on Vertigo: Camp Sensibility & Madness
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  • James Chapman

    James Chapman

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock and Theatre
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  • Katy Coakley

    Katy Coakley

    SPEAKER
    There’s Always Someone Watching: The Hidden Hitchcockian Influence in The Skin I Live In and The Substance
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  • Colleen Glenn

    Colleen Glenn

    SPEAKER
    Phobia and Hysteria in Vertigo: Scottie Under the Lens of 1950s Psychology
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  • Nick Haeffner

    Nick Haeffner

    SPEAKER
    “Dissociation of Sensibility” in Vertigo and Severance
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  • Dona M. Kercher

    Dona M. Kercher

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock in Argentina: Seeing Psycho through Taxidermy
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  • Marshall Leicester

    Marshall Leicester

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock’s Social Class: The British Silent Years
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  • Thomas Leitch

    Thomas Leitch

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock the Entertainer
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  • Rebecca McCallum

    Rebecca McCallum

    SPEAKER
    Looking Out/Listening In: Masculinity in Crisis in Rear Window and The Conversation
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  • Christopher McKittrick

    Christopher McKittrick

    SPEAKER
    Overlooked Gems: The Curious Incident of Hitchcock's "Incident at a Corner"
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  • Daisuke Miyao

    Daisuke Miyao

    SPEAKER
    Invisibility and Hypervisibility: Hitchcock in Japan
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  • Oisin Queally

    Oisin Queally

    SPEAKER
    TBA: The Man Who Knew Too Much
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  • Barry Sandler

    Barry Sandler

    SPEAKER
    Memories of Working with Kim Novak and Anthony Perkins
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  • Nathan Seckinger

    Nathan Seckinger

    SPEAKER
    Esoteric Realism in three Masters of Suspense: Hitchcock, Kubrick and Lynch
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  • Steven Smith

    Steven Smith

    SPEAKER
    Hitchcock and Herrmann: Their Friendship and Film Scores
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  • Caroline Young

    Caroline Young

    SPEAKER
    The Conflict of the Single Woman in Hitchcock’s Films
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Revisit events past

HitchCon ‘23

Hitchcock Unbound: Reimagining the Art of the Story

No one knew better than Alfred Hitchcock when to obey the rules of cinema and when to break them. HitchCon ‘23 will explore the ways in which he pushed the boundaries of his craft, thrilling audiences and blazing new trails for storytellers today. See the lineup and videos.

HitchCon ‘22

Hitchcock in a Time of Crisis

Four decades have passed since Hitchcock’s death, and we face a range of crises such as climate change, pandemics and political unrest. Nevertheless, his films remain perennially fresh and wise. On October 1-2, 2022, 22 speakers gathered to discuss the Master’s films in light of current events and trends. See the lineup and videos.

HitchCon ‘21

What’s It All about, Alfie? Alfred Hitchcock’s Lessons in Love

What can Hitchcock’s films teach us about love and life and love? On October 1-3, 2021, 21 speakers from Canada, England and the United States gathered to share their insights on the poignant, wise and honest depiction of love and its entanglements in Hitchcock’s films. See the lineup and videos.

TESTIMONIALS

What they’re saying

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED | I have learned so much with this group of great minds! — Ana Roland, Attendee

“Do yourself a favor and participate in the annual deep dive that is HitchCon. As a filmmaker, I find these conferences inspiring and illuminating.”—Norman Buckley, Executive Producer & Director, “Sweet Magnolias”

"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED | I have learned so much with this group of great minds! — Ana Roland, Attendee “Do yourself a favor and participate in the annual deep dive that is HitchCon. As a filmmaker, I find these conferences inspiring and illuminating.”—Norman Buckley, Executive Producer & Director, “Sweet Magnolias”

"HitchCon is a wonderful forum of wonderful people eagerly sharing their observations about The Master's movies and more."—Chris Kochmanski, Attendee

"Coming from Eastern Europe, HitchCon is a dream come true: a gathering of experts, cinephiles and energetic thinkers who enjoy exchanging observations about all things Hitchcock. —Sebastian Smoliński, Film Scholar & Podcaster, “Foreign Correspondents”

"HitchCon is a wonderful forum of wonderful people eagerly sharing their observations about The Master's movies and more."—Chris Kochmanski, Attendee "Coming from Eastern Europe, HitchCon is a dream come true: a gathering of experts, cinephiles and energetic thinkers who enjoy exchanging observations about all things Hitchcock. —Sebastian Smoliński, Film Scholar & Podcaster, “Foreign Correspondents”

“I was so inspired by this community of scholars, fans and Hitchcock admirers that I crafted a new course at my university for this coming fall. Hitch, here we come!” —Karen Ritzenhoff, Professor in Communication, Central Connecticut State University.

"HitchCon has been a must-attend event for me since its inception. These Hitchcock fans and scholars truly open up his work and world to me in whole new ways!"—Professor of Film Studies, Producer and Director, “Listen, Darkling” and “Highway”

“I was so inspired by this community of scholars, fans and Hitchcock admirers that I crafted a new course at my university for this coming fall. Hitch, here we come!” —Karen Ritzenhoff, Professor in Communication, Central Connecticut State University. "HitchCon has been a must-attend event for me since its inception. These Hitchcock fans and scholars truly open up his work and world to me in whole new ways!"—Professor of Film Studies, Producer and Director, “Listen, Darkling” and “Highway”

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