This five week course explores the work of Alfred Hitchcock, the classic Hollywood director known as "the master of suspense", whose work has played such an instrumental role in the development of cinema and in the creation of Auteur Theory. Hitchcock was both a masterful technician and a wildly unique storyteller. His films are remembered for their riveting narratives and for their cinematic innovations. In this course, Hitchcock's films will be approached through multiple academic disciplines, such as Film Studies, Film Theory, Formalist Film Theory, Psychoanalytic Film Theory, and Gender Studies. Students will discuss and deconstruct narrative elements and the social context of these films, while paying particular attention to filmic elements such as mise en scene, cinematography, editing and sound design. The following films from the Hitchcock canon will be discussed in the course: "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "North by Northwest", "Psycho", "Rebecca" and "Marnie".