FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Hitchcockiana

(The conference — Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration, MOMA, New York, October 13 to 17, 1999)

From April to July 1999, the Museum of Modern Art dedicated an extensive exhibition to Alfred Hitchcock. It encompassed screenings of his films and an exhibition of all kinds of works by Hitchcock (artifacts of his design, memorandums and reminders that he wrote, set design sketches and story-boards, drawing and photographs).

This exhibition was supplemented in October when, in New York, in the organization of New York University’s Tisch School of Arts’ Department for Film Studies, held the, up to now, biggest gathering dedicated to the legendary film maker entitled Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration, which gathered around 400 participants. Laura Mulvey, Robin Wood and Slavoj Žižek were just some of the renowned participants at the conference which was presided over by Richard Allen, the head of Film Studies at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.

Many debates were held at the conference in the following sections: Critical Perspectives, Biographical and Historical Perspectives, Working With Hitch: A Screenwriter’s Forum, Hitchcock in Context, Hitchcock and European Cinema, Industrial Discourses, or the Business of Filmmaking; Hitchcock’s Museum and the section The Gothic in Hitchcock, in which the most eminent international personalities in the field of Alfred Hitchcock research participated.

Sanja Muzaferija