Talking Hitchcock
Rebecca McCallum
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SEASON 1 FINALE-HITCHCOCK MAIL BAG EPISODE!
Talking Hitchcock
12/20/23 • 146 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join me your creator, host and Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum for the final episode of Season 1 of the podcast. And to mark this occasion, I answer questions from guests and listeners in a special mailbag episode!
Your questions really put me to the test and I had a wonderful time thinking about Hitchcock’s films in new and interesting ways.
Amongst a wide range of topics, I answer questions on everything from Hitchcock’s Mothers, Misunderstood Villains, Overlooked Performances and find out my favourite scene in all of Hitchcock!
Thank you to everyone who submitted questions and for all of your support so far.
I’ll be taking a break in January 2024 to regroup, reset and plan content for the year ahead and Talking Hitchcock will be back in February 2024.
Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
Links and References
What A Scream: Ep.95: Black and White Horror with Rebecca McCallum on Apple Podcasts
Hitchcock’s Women (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
ANALYSIS: A Kaleidoscopic Nightmare – The Horror of VERTIGO (1958) (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
Moving Pictures Film Club: "A boy's best friend is his mother" - PSYCHO (1960) (libsyn.com)
Moving Pictures Film Club: "No one possesses you. You're safe with me" -VERTIGO (1958) (libsyn.com)
A Year In Horror: 1998 (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts
Getting Dafoe You: SE1EP10: Antichrist (2009) on Apple Podcasts
Bloodletter Launch Event 1 - YouTube
Forgotten Females: Women in Jack the Ripper Films Part 1: "The Lodger" - Rue Morgue (rue-morgue.com)
Cat And Mouse: Who Is The Real Villain Of Hitchcock's ROPE? (fangoria.com)
Direct To Knowhere - Rebecca McCallum - Road To Knowhere | Podcast on Spotify
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) with Tim Coleman
Talking Hitchcock
09/29/23 • 162 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest writer, podcaster and founder/Editor in Chief of Moving Pictures Film Club -Tim Coleman.
In this episode, I had a truly memorable and enlightening conversation with my special guest and we got so carried away in our Merry Widow Waltz that we had to record this in two parts!
So, join us for a drink at the Till Two Bar as we discuss the disruption of the American family, Hitchcock’s identification with those he positions as heroic and villainous and whether a tune can really jump from one person’s head to another and as we peel back the layers of 1943’s magnificent Shadow of a Doubt.
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
You can find Moving Pictures Film Club on the following platforms -Twitter @MovingPicsClub and Instagram: @movingpicsclub Website: movingpicturesfilmclub.com
And you can find Tim Coleman here: Twitter @fatscoleman and Instagram: @fats_coleman
Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: Hitchcock’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
References:
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Bureau of Motion Pictures and a Manual for the Motion Pictures Industry (June 1942)
- Hitchcock and Truffaut (Interviews)
- Don’t Understand, My Darling-The Girl Grows Up in Shadow of a Doubt’ (Murray Pomerance)
- Ideology, Genre, Auteur: Shadow of a Doubt in Hitchcock’s Films Revisited- (Robin Wood)
- Shadow of a Doubt (Diane Negra)
- The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski)
07/07/23 • 43 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for a bonus episode marking the beginning of a new series entitled Hitch Takes!
Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she explores the role and readings of Midge in Vertigo. Listen to Rebecca analyse each of Midge scenes, comparing and contrasting her with Madeline and Judy, and examining her relationship with Scottie.
This is the first Hitch Take episode so please get in touch and let me know what you think!
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
References
Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo BFI Classics -Charles Barr
Fatal Resemblances: Cross Mapping Hitchcock’s Vertigo with Nabokov’s Lolita, (Barbara Straumann) in Haunted by Vertigo Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now (Edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin)
The Women Who Knew Too Much (Tania Modleski)
Vertigo (1958), Alternate Ending - YouTube
‘The Look’, Narrativity and the Female Spectator in Vertigo. (Karen Hollinger)
The Past, The Present And The Perverse: VERTIGO As A Possession Film - Fangoria
HITCHCOCK AND HORROR with Mike Muncer
Talking Hitchcock
10/27/23 • 121 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film journalist, producer and presenter and creator and host of Evolution of Horror Podcast-Mike Muncer.
Hitchcock and horror have always gone hand in hand-his fascination with death, murder and the repressed spans across his career from 1927’s The Lodger, a film based serial killer-Jack the Ripper, to the gothic notes of 1940’s Rebecca.
Elsewhere, we can find traces of the macabre in the Nietzchen theories at work in 1948s Rope and nihilism and brutality in the creature attacks of 1963’s The Birds.
In this episode, Mike and I discuss all things Hitchcock and Horror-from the gothic and the uncanny, to how the director uses space and knowledge to evoke suspense and fear.
We also have a fun time sharing our favourite villains, top five horror moments in Hitchcock and Mike rates listeners scary moments on the Hitch-o-meter of horror!
So, join us in the vast hallways of Manderlay, in the cosy and creepy parlour of the Bates motel and in the living room of a Manhattan apartment for a macabre buffet as we take a dizzyingly wonderful and dangerous carousel ride into the world of Hitchcock and Horror.
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
You can find Mike on the following platforms Twitter @TheMovieMike Instagram: @mikemuncer
And you can find Evolution of Horror here:
Twitter @EvolutionPod Instagram: @evolutionofhorror Website: evolutionofhorror.com
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)
MR AND MRS SMITH (1941) with Beth Bullock
Talking Hitchcock
08/25/23 • 125 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest film scholar, artist and educator Beth Bullock as they take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater Club and travel from New York to Lake Placid to discuss the screwball comedy MR AND MRS SMITH (1941).
I was delighted to be joined by such a special guest who is the absolute expert and go-to voice when it comes to this film. In what might be the biggest deep dive ever on the film to date, we cover Hitchcock’s relationship with the incredible Carole Lombard and theorise on what this film tells us about the art of playing, gender roles in marriage and did I mention, the Freudian slit?
So, let the games begin as we bend the rules, take some bad advice from a friend whilst saunering at the Beefeater club and travel from Manhattan to Lake Placid as we press the doorbell of Mr and Mrs Smith!
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
Beth is an alumna of the University of Chicago's Cinema and Media Studies Program. She teaches art history, cinema and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. She is at work on a chapter tenatively titled 'More Blessed to Give: Trackign the Reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)' to be published in a forthcoming Hitchcock anthology. As a freelance photographer, her work as been displayed and published locally around Chicago. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences.
You can find Beth Bullock on the following platforms:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blbullock77
Twitter @bbullock77
Instagram: @bbullock
Visit her website: crackingacademic.wordpress.com
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)
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) with Becky Darke
Talking Hitchcock
02/29/24 • 175 min
In this episode, join me and my special guest -podcaster, writer and programmer Becky Darke as we cook up spaghetti and peel back the curtain to discuss what happens when a seemingly perfectly planned murder goes wrong, taking a look along the way at the art of showing and telling and making plenty of time to assess one of Hitchcock’s most calculatingly devious villains!
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
You can find Becky and her work here:
Twitter @bunnydarke Instagram: @bunnydarke Letterboxd: @beckydarke Evolution of Horror: @EvolutionPod
Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
References
Read my article on Margot Wendice for Moving Pictures Film Club
Listen to me guesting on Moving Pictures Film Club podcast with Tim Coleman discussing the Sight and Sound list and our own personal favourites! Moving Pictures Film Club: Bonus: Sight and Sound's Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time (libsyn.com)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Martin Scorsese on "Dial M for Murder" - YouTube
Hitchcock and Truffaut Interviews (1962))
Dial M for Murder (1954) (cinemaessentials.com)
Dial M for Murder (1954) – The Blonde at the Film
High Society (Donald Spoto)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Dial M for Murder The Submerged Televisuality of a Stage-to-Screen Adaptation in Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adapter - Google Books
Beyond the Blonde The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock’s Films, Elisabeth Karlin
Welcome to Talking Hitchcock! Podcast Trailer
Talking Hitchcock
04/16/23 • 3 min
Listen to the trailer for Talking Hitchcock-a podcast celebrating and exploring the work and world of Alfred Hitchcock, created and hosted by Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum! Each episode, you are invited into the screening room for a deep dive of one of the directors films or for post-show drinks where Rebecca will be joined by special guests to discuss all things that form part of the Hitchcockian universe!
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases.
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)
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) with Elisabeth Karlin
Talking Hitchcock
06/30/23 • 125 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest -New York Playwright and Scholar Elisabeth Karlin as they prepare to travel from Marrakesh all the way to London to analyse and dissect Hitchcock’s only remake- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Listen to find out which critical study of Hitchcock Elisabeth persuaded her father to publish which she was also involved in proof reading and amongst other things we discuss-marriage, gender, what is in a name, that troubling sedation scene and redefining the Hitchcock Blonde.
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
Elisabeth is a playwright in New York City who also writes about film. Her work on Hitchcock includes being a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog and her essay on the heroines of Hitchcock appears in the most recent Hitchcock Annual. She serves on the advisory board of "HitchCon" and has spoken at its yearly conferences. You can find her on Twitter @ElisabethKarlin and Instagram @elisbath.karlin
Find Rebecca and her work on Twitter and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here: Hitchcock’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
References
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much-Criterion Collection Guillermo del Toro on The Man Who Knew Too Much - YouTube
Hitchcock’s Heroines (Caroline Young)
Hitchcock Revisited (Robin Wood)
The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much BFI Classic (Murray Pomerance)
Interview: Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut (1962)
Beyond the Blond the Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock (Elisabeth Karlin)
Breaking Silence Through Song-Jo McKenna in The Man Who Knew Too Much (Rebecca McCallum)
The Man Who Knew Too Much-The Thriller Master’s Only Remake (Cinephilia and Beyond) ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’: The Thriller Master’s Only Remake • Cinephilia & Beyond (cinephiliabeyond.org)
NOTORIOUS (1946) with Alison Taylor
Talking Hitchcock
08/20/24 • 292 min
Love and duty, consent and control, Miami and Rio!
Make sure you step carefully, quietly and unseen into the wine cellar for this feature length episode of Talking Hitchcock where amongst other things, my special guest and I discuss modes of identification, daddy issues and that kiss! Keep tight hold of that key as you are invited to join us for a deep dive of what might be best described as 'a film of faces.'
Sit as a silhouette figure in the shadows but be careful with that after dinner coffee as we are about to embark upon an exploration of a true Hitchcock masterpiece.
In this epic episode, I am joined by Assistant Professor, film lecturer and author of multiple books-Ali Taylor! There was so much to be said about Notorious that we had to meet three times and I could not have wished for a more wonderful guest.
Find Talking Hitchcock on X @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
You can find Ali and her work here:
X: @preferenepas
Instagram: @acephalica
Find Rebecca and her work on X and Instagram @PendlePumpkin
References:
Notorious (1946) -Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's Films Revisited-Robin Wood
Hitchcock Humour Tone and Suspense-Susan Smith
The Women Who Knew Too Much-Professor Tania Modleski
Hitchcock and Selznick-The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O Selznick in Hollywood-Leonard J.Leff
Ingrid Bergman My Story-Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess
Edith Head's Hollywood-Edith Head
Hitchcock's Heroines-Caroline Young
Alfred Hitchcock-A Life in Darkness and Light-Patrick McGilligan
Cary Grant-The Making of a Hollywood Legend-Mark Glancy
The Object and the Face, Notorious, Bergman and the Close Up-Joe McElhaney
Reframing Hitchcock-Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual-edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse
The Hitchcock Murders-Peter Conrad
The Making of Hitchcock's Notorious
Notorious (1946) Hitchcock The Making of
John Bailey on Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Picture Post (16 Feb 1946) -Ingrid Bergman: she's making a film with Producer Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman Notorious-Her Classy 1940s Fashion-Classic Critics Corner-Vintage 1940S, 1950s, 1960s
A Woman of that Sort-Hitchcock's Notorious and the Feast of St Alicia-The Spool
The Ragged End of Nowhere-Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946) Senses of Cinema
Inside, Around and About Notorious-Filmtidsskrift
How Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant Shot Hitchcock's Notorious-Vulture.com
Notorious (1946)-The Blonde at the Film
Notorious: Hitchcock's Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece-Cinephilia and Beyond
The Essential Hitchcock with Douglas Cunningham (Context Podcast)
Interview with Christine Madrid French-Author of THE ARCHITECTURE OF SUSPENSE-THE BUILT WORLD IN THE FILMS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Talking Hitchcock
07/28/23 • 109 min
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest - historian, author, scholar and leader in historic preservation and the study of American architecture -Christine Madrid French-to talk about her must-have book- The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Christine discusses her fantastic book, how architecture impacts upon our psychology and what she terms ‘the mystical Hitchcock’ as well as sharing insights on key moments and themes relating to architecture in Hitchcock’s films. She also shares EXCLUSIVE!! NEVER DISCUSSED BEFORE FINDINGS in her research relating to the Uncanny Valley and two key locations in Vertigo (1958)-the Legion of Honour and the Empire Hotel. I conclude by putting some listener questions to Christine about architecture in Hitchcock’s films.
Find Talking Hitchcock on Twitter @hitch_pod and Instagram @talkinghitchpod where you can support the podcast and keep up to date with releases or email us on [email protected]
You can find Christine on Twitter @madridfrench and Instagram @madamhistorian and visit her website: madridfrench.com
You can purchase her book The Architecture of Suspense-The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock via Amazon or from the store on her website: madridfrench.com/store
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)
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How many episodes does Talking Hitchcock have?
Talking Hitchcock currently has 23 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Film History, Podcasts and Tv & Film.
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The average episode length on Talking Hitchcock is 105 minutes.
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Episodes of Talking Hitchcock are typically released every 27 days, 23 hours.
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The first episode of Talking Hitchcock was released on Apr 16, 2023.
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