PEOPLE + PLACES VIRTUAL SERIES
The Architecture of Suspense...Vertigo!
Tuesday, June 6
12:30 - 1:00 p.m.

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Join the Conservancy for our People + Places series and first “minisode” as we embark on all things Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, and the historic places he highlights in this classic 1958 psychological film thriller. This will be a special feature and lead up to our June 17 screening of Vertigo as part of the Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats film series.   

Christine Madrid French, native Angelino, preservationist, and author of The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock, will join us for a fun conversation about the making of Vertigo, and talk about how architecture plays such a prominent, leading role in Vertigo and many of Hitchcock’s most beloved films.  

Christine Madrid French is a scholar, storyteller, and architectural advocate. She was born on Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles to a Mexican American photographer from Boyle Heights and a recently transplanted Midwestern office assistant with dreams of a singing career. Christine is a graduate of the University of Virginia and has worked as an historian for organizations across the country, including the National Park Service.

Her book The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock, focusing on the real-world histories of cinematic structures, was released in 2022 by the University of Virginia Press with an adapted excerpt featured in the October issue of Vanity Fair that same year. She is the Director of Advocacy and Programs at San Francisco Heritage and has raised more than $2.5 million for non-profit causes in art and architecture during her career.