1. Michelle Tvete

2. Crew Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: John Buchan (novel)
Charles Bennett (adaptation)
Ian Hay (dialogue)
Music: Jack Beaver (uncredited)
Louis Levy (uncredited)

3. Key Cast Members Robert Donat as Richard Hannay
Madeleine Carroll as Pamela Shaneakwa
Lucie Mannheim as Annabella Smith
Wylie Watson as Mr. Memory
Alfred Hitchcock as ?

4. Story

5. Possible Presentation Approaches
Adaptation:
Beyond question of fidelity
to source material

6. Possible Presentation Approaches
Adaptation:
Literal
Faithful
Loose

7. Possible Presentation Approaches
Adaptation:
Adapted from OR
Adapted to
Book, radio, play, history, folk tale, game, and other films

8. Adaptation Sources for Hitchcock & Charles Bennet
James Buchan’s 1914 novel
South African Boer’s story
Datas, a real-life music hall performer

9. Adapted to
Films in1957, 1978, 2008 (BBC) & 2011 (Robert Towne, Australian setting)
Play in 2006
Interactive online story in 2006

10. North by Northwest Connections
Planes, Trains & Women

11. Possible Presentation Approaches
Auteur Theory:
French theorists (1950s)
Director as “author” of film
Identifiable:
Stylistic patterns
Thematic patterns

12. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:

13. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:
Pure Cinema (visual storytelling)
Innocent man (double chase)
Cool blondes
Hands
“Stage” opening & closings
Voyeuristic gaze
Suspense (building fear)
Iconic monuments & buildings
Music

14. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:
Pure Cinema (visual storytelling)—Mise en scène
Innocent man (double chase)—Character/Plot
Cool blondes—Character/Actor
Hands—Character/Camera close ups
“Stage” opening & closings--Setting
Voyeuristic gaze—Perspective/Camera POV
Suspense—Emotion/Viewer response
Iconic monuments & buildings—Setting
Score--Music

15. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:
Your own observation & theory

16. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:
Triggers: Events, sights or sounds that cause strong emotional or psychological reactions in a character.

17. Possible Presentation Approaches
Hitchcock as Auteur:
Triggers: Events, sights or sounds that cause strong emotional or psychological reactions in a character.
Hitchcock often reveals a trigger’s emotional or psychological effect by shifting to a subjective position.

18. Triggers
Spellbound (1945)

19. Triggers
Spellbound (1945)

20. Triggers
Strangers on a Train (1951)

21. Triggers
Marnie (1964)

22. Triggers

23. Triggers

24. Triggers

25. See for yourself!