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DESCRIPTION:Alfred Hitchcock did not simply emerge from the primordial ci
 nematic ooze a fully-formed filmmaker\, in the mid-1950s\, to create cla
 ssics like Rear Window\, Vertigo\, and North by Northwest. Indeed\, by t
 hat time Hitch had been directing pictures in Europe and the U.S. for ne
 arly thirty years\, over the course of which he developed his signature 
 style and formulated his thematic approach to filmmaking.While this clas
 s does not venture all the way back to Hitchcock's German films of the 1
 920s\, it does cover some of the director's better known British work\, 
 such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938)\, as well as hi
 s initial forays into Hollywood. These include his very first American f
 ilm\, Rebecca (1940)\, and the underappreciated Spellbound (1945)\, a ta
 le of psychoanalysis and murder\, with sequences designed by Salvador Da
 l. Both productions were supervised by David O. Selznick\, the man who b
 rought Hitchcock over from Englandand then nearly sent him back.These ea
 rly pictures (all of which will be screened in the theater) contain some
  of the elements for which Hitch would later become famous: (blonde) wom
 en in trouble\, danger in everyday places\, Machiavellian matrons\, and 
 of course\, his iconic cameosdespite being made by the Master of Suspens
 e when he was but a craftsman.
URL:http://brynmawr.patch.com/events/alfred-hitchcock-the-early-years-9d3
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SUMMARY:Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
LOCATION:Bryn Mawr Film Institute: 824 W Lancaster Ave\, Bryn Mawr\, PA
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