Warning: This mini-series will make a Hitchcock Geek out of you.
Web series
Nobody pleased a crowd better than Alfred Hitchcock, and if entertainment is all you want, his movies are a great go-to. Yet, as my sagging bookshelf can testify, there’s more going here on than sultry blondes and sexy villains. In How to Watch Hitchcock, we explore how Hitchcock’s youth in London in the nineteen-teens practically predestined him to become the Master of Suspense. Did you know these facts?
Hitchcock’s nearby neighborhood of Limehouse was the home of Britain’s film industry.
His other nearby neighborhood, Whitechapel was Jack the Ripper’s territory.
Hitchcock lived through the German firebombing of London.
Let’s go on an animated tour of early London enhanced with rare footage from his youth to see how these factors shaped his notions of terror and suspense—not to mention filmmaking itself. Watch the docuseries that's been praised by newbies and scholars alike!
