Alfred Hitchcock’s Architecture of Horror

By By jake Mohan 
Published on June 13, 2008
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Film analysis, architecture, and set design converge in We Make Money Not Arts review of The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock. Location and architecture play a crucial role in nearly all of Hitchcock’s films, and some structures have become iconic: the bell tower in Vertigo, the apartment in Rear Window, the Bates mansion in Psycho. The review highlights just a few of the ways in which the films’ architecture informs and responds to the often twisted psychology of the characters.

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