Talking Hitchcock

By Rebecca McCallumTV & Film Film History

Talking Hitchcock episodes

June 28, 2024 Interview with Neil Alcock-Author of HITCHOLOGY
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest author and free-lance writer Neil Alcock to discuss his new book Hitchology- A Film-by-Film Guide to the Styles and Themes of Alfred Hitchcock-a book which considers how Hitchcock uses narrative tropes and formal flourishes to create some of cinema’s most unforgettable experiences across Hitchcock’s filmography.

In this episode we discuss Neil’s book at length as well as his fascinating process for selecting a wonderful list of
the Essential 10. We also take time to discuss several Hitchcock films in detail including The Lodger, Blackmail, Rebecca, Rope, Vertigo and North by Northwest.

This was such an enjoyable, open and organic conversation that went in so many exciting directions, you may even say we found ourselves caught in an endless Vertigo-like spiral!

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 Neil and his work on the following platforms

Twitter: @MrNeilAlcock
Instagram: @mrneilalcock

And you can visit his website here NEIL ALCOCK | Film
journalist and author and pick up a copy of his book Hitchology via this link HITCHOLOGY – NEIL ALCOCK | Filmjournalist and author

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1 hr 57 min
May 31, 2024 HITCH TAKES! Jasper as the Rebecca Stand-In (REBECCA-1940)
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room for another episode of Hitch Takes where Rebecca explores a specific topic, theory or idea in detail!

Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum as she presents an exclusive theory– ‘Jasper as the Rebecca Stand In’.

Rebecca applies close critical analysis of key scenes in the film in support of this theory whilst also inviting many opportunities for questions around the magnetic and
magnificent presence of Rebecca!

The second Mrs de Winter may have arrived, but the first Mrs de Winter is going nowhere-and she might just be manifesting her presence and strength of will, through the silent and ominous Jasper.

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References
Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
The Women Who
Knew Too Much-Professor
Tania Modleski
Robin Wood On
The Horror Film-Robin Wood
48 min
April 26, 2024 ARCHIE-THE MAN WHO BECAME CARY GRANT-(2023)- with Professor Mark Glancy
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest author, researcher
and Professor of Film History-Mark Glancy who has written at length about Hitchcock and specialised in researching and writing about the life and work of
Cary Grant. In this feature length episode, we take time to discuss our thoughts and responses to the ITV drama series Archie (2023). However, given Mark’s expertise, this also leads (inevitably) to a broader discussion of Cary Grant’s life and career. Mark was a wonderfully knowledgeable and engaging guest and offered so much texture and insightful analysis to our discussion.
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]

Links to Mark and his work:
Twitter/X: @mark_glancy
Purchase Mark’s book on Cary Grant here:
Cary Grant, theMaking of a Hollywood Legend
Purchase Mark’s book on The 39 Steps here:
The 39 Steps: The British Film Guide

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2 hr 55 min
March 29, 2024 Interview with Tony Lee Moral-Author of ALFRED HITCHCOCK STORYBOARDS
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast Rebecca McCallum with special guest – film maker, multi award winning writer and Hitchcock expert Tony Lee Moral to talk all about his wonderful new book- ALFRED HITCHCOCK STORYBOARDS.
We explore the role of storyboarding, the inspirational team of artists who helped bring these films to life and the musicality of Hitchcock. We also discuss the architecture of space, the importance of colour and mood and the influence and impact of storyboarding and ask the question of how Hitchcock would have used modern film making technology.
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]
Tony is a film maker, multi award winning author and Hitchcock expert. You can find him on Twitter @TonyLeeMoral and Instagram @tonyleemoral and visit his website: tonyleemoralbooks.com
You can purchase his book ALFRED HITCHCOCK STORYBOARDS via Amazon, Titan and in all major book retailers.
AlfredHitchcock Storyboards @ Titan Books
Read Rebecca’s review on ALFRED HITCHCOCK STORYBOARDS for Dread Central here: 'AlfredHitchcock Storyboards' Review (dreadcentral.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’sWomen (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠
56 min
March 27, 2024 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Talking Hitchcock Presents -The Apartment Trilogy -at Storyhouse Chester!!
Join Talking Hitchcock for a weekend of suspense and entertainment!
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum as she makes a special announcement about a Hitchcock festival she has curated in partnership with Storyhouse Chester.
Rebecca will be screening The Apartment Trilogy at Storyhouse on 7th and 8th June, showcasing Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder and Rear Window (1954).
Tickets and Details for The Apartment Trilogy at Storyhouse
The Apartment Trilogy | Storyhouse
To find out more about Storyhouse and what they do, visit them online www.storyhouse.com
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
Read Rebecca's Hitchcock's Women series with Moving Pictures Film Club here:
⁠⁠Hitchcock’s Women(movingpicturesfilmclub.com)⁠
8 min
February 29, 2024 DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) with Becky Darke
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
HITCHCOCK’SWOMEN: Strangled into Silence – Margot Wendice in DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) –PART I (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
HITCHCOCK’SWOMEN: Strangled into Silence – Margot Wendice in DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) –PART II (movingpicturesfilmclub.com)
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) — Interiors : An Online Publication about Architecture and Film (intjournal.com)
Dial M for Murder (1954) – The Blonde at the Film
The Master of Suspense Blogathon: Dial M for Mediocre or Misunderstood? | nitrateglow (wordpress.com)
High Society (Donald Spoto)
Observations on film art : DIAL M FOR MURDER: Hitchcock frets not at his narrow room (davidbordwell.net)
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
Dial M for Murder: the detective thriller, the postwar uncanny, and 3D cinema: New Review of Film and Television Studies: Vol 20, No 1 (tandfonline.com)
Beyond the Blonde The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock’s Films, Elisabeth Karlin
2 hr 56 min
December 20, 2023SEASON 1 FINALE-HITCHCOCK MAIL BAG EPISODE!
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
Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad: Bodies of Horror: Episode 52 - Hitchcock Moms feat.
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)
Hanging By A Thread: Ghost Around Us (Crimson Peak and Rebecca) w/ Rebecca McCallum on
Apple Podcasts
A Year In Horror: 1998 (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts
Getting Dafoe You: SE1EP10: Antichrist (2009) on Apple Podcasts
‘You can’t have me. You can’t touch me – that’s mine.’ Modes of Possession in The Entity (1982) | Bloodletter Magazine
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
2 hr 27 min
November 24, 2023 HITCHCOCK AND COSTUME with Jolene Marie Richardson
You are invited back into the Talking Hitchcock screening room! Join creator and host, Hitchcock enthusiast, Rebecca McCallum with special guest Jolene Marie Richardson who is a costume designer and fashion historian, host and creator of Hanging by a Thread podcast and creator and author of Hanging by a Thread Blog.
Jolene was the perfect guest for this topic as, amongst other things we discuss if there is such a thing as Hitchcockian style, the notion of using costume to explore themes of identity and disguise and we also share our top five costume moments in Hitchcock and answer some listener questions! So, put on your gloves, button up your suit and strike a pose as we explore all things HITCHCOCK and COSTUME!

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 Jolene and her work on the following platforms:

Twitter @JoMarieDesigns
Instagram: @jolenemarie_designs

You can find her podcast /read her blog Hanging by a Thread on
the following platforms:

Twitter @hanging_bts
Instagram: @hangingbyathreadbts
Listen to the podcast: Hanging By A Thread • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

You can listen to the episode of Jolene’s podcast where I guested talking about REBECCA (1940) and CRIMSON PEAK (2015) here: Hanging By A Thread: Ghost Around Us (Crimson Peak and
Rebecca) w/ Rebecca McCallum on Apple Podcasts
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)⁠
1 hr 44 min
October 27, 2023 HITCHCOCK AND HORROR with Mike Muncer
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)⁠

2 hr 2 min
September 29, 2023SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) with Tim Coleman
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)
2 hr 43 min