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Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock
This paper analyzes Alfred Hitchcock's films as unique detective and mystery stories: Plots, themes and characters.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1994
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"The detective/mystery film has a number of different features which identify it while at the same time it consists of several different sub-genres representing variations in the basic generic structure. Many of the films of Alfred Hitchcock can be and have been identified as mysteries, though they are not usually mysteries in the sense of the "whodunit" or the strict detective film. Instead, they are films about crime, using the psychological underpinnings of crime as keys for delving into the realm of suspense. Mysteries use suspense as well as the viewer waits to see who committed the crime. The detective story is one of the staples of the Hollywood film, though in different periods the detective story has taken different forms according to public tastes. For much of the thirties and forties, the detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes--the consulting ... "More papers on Alfred Hitchcock:
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