Talking Hitchcock

REAR WINDOW (1954) with Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

Talking Hitchcock

Show Notes

You are invited to enter the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest -Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana as they warm their brandies and pull up the blinds to zoom in on all aspects of Rear Window (1954). We discuss voyeurism, sexuality, cinematic metaphors and unconscious desires!

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Ygraine is a Senior Contributor of Moving Pictures Film Club and Ghouls Magazine and host of What A Scream Podcast. Find Ygraine on Instagram @whatascream and her podcast What A Scream on Twitter @what_scream and Instagram @whatascreampodcast. All her links can be found here whatascreampodcast | Twitter, Facebook |Linktree

Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin

Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: ⁠Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠

Episode References

Rear Window (1954)

Hitchcock's Heroines (Caroline Young)

The Women Who Knew Too Much-Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (Tania Modleski)

Hitchcock's Films Revisited (Robin Wood)

It Had to be Murder (Cornell Woolrich)

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Laura Mulvey)

Hitchcock's Women-The World Beyond the Window: Lisa Fremont in Rear Window (Rebecca McCallum)

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