These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Rear Window and Community as Worldbuilding

|Courtney Kowalke| If I were a character in Rear Window (1954), I would be the woman who lives above Lars and Anna Thorwald with her husband and their dog. I have thought about this a lot—Rear Window is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched… Continue reading

A Stitch In Time: Picking at the Seams of To Catch a Thief’s Costume Design

A color image of John Robie, a white, dark-haired man standing next to Frances Stevens, a white, blonde woman on a lawn.

|Courtney Kowalke| Does anyone who enjoys classic Hollywood films get sick of talking about Edith Head? I’m sure those people exist, but I’m not one of them. I’m actually a bigger fan of Head’s work styling Kim Novak in Vertigo, but if you want to discuss Head and Hitchcock, To Catch aContinue reading