{"id":2368,"date":"2004-03-30T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/31\/exploring-hitchcock\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:53:37","slug":"exploring-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/30\/exploring-hitchcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11405,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/006039322X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/006039322X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11406,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00005QAPL\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B00005QAPL\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11407,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783226055\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311161434\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783226055\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783226055\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11408,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783225849\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783225849\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11409,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783240236\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311161430\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783240236\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/0783240236\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3205,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.netflix.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260305210541\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.netflix.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 15:00:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 02:03:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 10:25:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 05:05:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 11:51:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 23:23:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>About three weeks ago, a reader of my site <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/random_presents.html\" title=\"Random presents\">surprised me<\/a> with the gift of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/006039322X\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"A Life in Darkness and Light\">new biography of Alfred Hitchcock<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t start it immediately, as I was in the middle of another book, but when I lost that book along with my bookbag I started reading the Hitchcock biography.<\/p>\n<p>So far, it&#8217;s fascinating, and I&#8217;m only about a third of the way through (up to Hitch moving to America and working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00005QAPL\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Rebecca\">Rebecca<\/a>, his first American-made film). I did, however, realize that while I&#8217;ve certainly enjoyed what I&#8217;ve seen of Hitchcock&#8217;s films, I&#8217;ve actually seen very few: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0783226055\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Vertigo\">Vertigo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0783225849\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Psycho\">Psycho<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0783240236\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Birds\">The Birds<\/a> are the only ones!<\/p>\n<p>So, in an attempt to rectify that situation, I&#8217;ve gone through and added every single Hitchcock DVD available to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/\" title=\"NetFlix\">NetFlix<\/a> queue. In chronological order, no less.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, I added them to the <em>end<\/em> of my queue, so I won&#8217;t actually start going through them unless I take the time to rearrange my queue, but still, they&#8217;re there, so at some point in the future, I&#8217;ll be able to drastically increase my Hitchcock knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Wandering Minstrel, The\/Jackson&#8217;s Morning Brush&#8221; by Ennis, S\u00e9amus from the album <em>Wandering Minstrel, The<\/em> (1974, 5:34).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, the Hitchcock biography is fascinating, and I&#8217;m only about a third of the way through. I did, however, realize that while I&#8217;ve certainly enjoyed what I&#8217;ve seen of Hitchcock&#8217;s films, I&#8217;ve actually seen very few: Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds are the only ones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2037],"tags":[2493,23],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv-and-films","tag-alfred-hitchcock","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}