Support for the exhibition is provided by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University the Alfred J. “Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film” is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, in collaboration with the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library.
In fact, Hitchcock himself once said that his movies were created “slowly, from discussion, arguments, random suggestions, casual desultory talk and furious intellectual quarrels.” Through drawings, paintings, storyboards, script pages and clips from such classic films as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), North by Northwest (1959) and The Birds (1963), this exhibition reveals how Hitchcock’s colleagues contributed critical ideas and how the director himself engaged his team in the creative process it examines how the films were crafted, sometimes frame by frame, as a collective enterprise that would ultimately be shared with an audience. Although Hitchcock’s image as a solitary and visionary artist was periodically buttressed by his own strident pronouncements for the press, “Casting a Shadow” reinforces the notion that in as complicated an art form as film, masterpieces do not spring from an artist’s mind fully formed.The basic premise seems to be to “prove” that Hitchock was not an auteur but a collaborative artist of course, the two terms are not mutually exclusive, but the exhibition sounds interesting anyway.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is hosting an exhibition of material from the films of Alfred Hitchcock this month.
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