Session 1 - From the Beginning to the English Period

The search for truth, the sense of time, space as a cage, the work on endings, the tendency to use literary sources, the plurality of the gaze, etc. After an initial brief overview of Hitchcock's cinema, the path starts with his first films, made in England, starting with The Lodger (1926), the first film in which he ‘discovers’ the link between image and perception and between emotion and visual surprise. We then move on to The Island of Sin (1929) in which the very important theme of guilt appears for the first time, up to The 39 Club (1935) in which verisimilitude takes second place to make room for the visual power of the images.