The document summarizes Joann Huang's thesis presentation which explored precedents related to Alfred Hitchcock's films. It discussed documentary films and multimedia experiences that analyzed themes in Hitchcock's work like fear and voyeurism. It also presented reimaginings of Hitchcock film posters, games, and visual installations. Huang proposed ideas for her own work exploring symbolic sexuality and recurring motifs in Hitchcock films through storyboards. The document concluded with books Huang plans to read to further her research and precedents related to women and suggestive portrayals of sexuality.

1. Thesis Presentation
Joann Huang
Thesis Studio 1

2. Precedents

3. Double Take
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
An essay film by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez, which intercuts clips
and interviews featuring Alfred Hitchcock with archive footage of cold
war news coverage, and tells the story of the rise of “fear as a commodity”

4. The HBO Voyeur Project
A theatrical multimedia experience
-Inspired by Hitchcock’s film Rear Window
-The site’s slogan was “See what people do when they
think no one is watching.”
-The focus seems to be
on people living in eight
fictional apartments on
the corner of Broome
Street and Ludlow
Street.

5. Reimaging Hitchcock Film Posters
various artists
Matt Needle

6. Brandon Schaefer
Laz Marquez

7. Clue Board Games
Alfred Hitchcock edition

8. REAR WINDOW LOOP (2010)
- Dissected and stiched the film into a single panoramic view.
- The entire coutyard represents the view from James Stewart’s
characters’ window.
a visual installation by Jeff Desom

9. Hitchcock movies reimagined as 8-bit games
Illustrated by JoeBot

10. Brainstorming

11. Hitchcock themes
- Recurring motifs
- Cameo
- Obsession with birds
- Symbolic sexuality
- Blonde women
- Numbers
- Suspense

12. Ideas

13. Symbolic Sexuality
A series of storyboards/ film stills that explores the
sexual tensions in Hitchcock’s films
Example:
In Psycho, Norman Bates is having a conversation
with Marion Crane. At the same time, one of his
hands is stroking a dead animal and the other hand
lingers on his crotch.

14. Books I need to read
1. Hitchcock motifs by Michael Walker
2. The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression
3. Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
by Donald Spoto
4. The Art of Looking in Hitchcock’s Rear Window by Stefan Sharff
5. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick
Mcgilligan
6. The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist
Theory by Tania Modleski

15. Next Step

16. Research more precedents
-Precedents related to women in films
-Films that dealt with sexuality without graphic images

17. Thank you.