How Engineering Helped Hitchcock Scare the Pants off of You

Did you know Alfred Hitchcock was a formally trained engineer?

Biomedical engineer Guru Madhavan, author of Applied Minds: How Engineers Think,could see evidence of this in Hitchcock’s movies. An engineering background can not only inform a director’s shooting decisions, but also equips him or her with the necessary modular system kind of thinking to be good at assembling a good film.

Having a Background in Engineering

I only very recently got into Mr. [Alfred] Hitchcock’s films and I wa...