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Shadow of a Doubt (Hardcover)
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Shadow of a Doubt (Hardcover)
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcock's sixth
American film and the one that he at various times identified as
his favourite and his best. It seems likely that one of the reasons
he liked Shadow so much is that is an extraordinarily well-ordered
narrative system, a meticulous cause and effect chain that melds
its various scenes and sequences together to form a unified
narrative that is highly effective in building suspense and
cultivating identification with characters. This scrupulously
organized film operates as a masterclass on principles of narrative
design while generating resonant commentary on the nature of family
life. This book redresses the deficit of sustained critical
attention paid to Shadow even in the large corpus of Hitchcock
scholarship. Analysing the film's narrative system, issues of
genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and 'family
values', Diane Negra shows how the film's impeccable narrative
structure is wedded to radical ideological content, linking the
film's terrors to the punishing effects of looking beyond
conventional family and gender roles. This book understands Shadow
as an unconventionally female-centred Hitchcock text and a
milestone film that marks the director's emergent engagement with
the pathologies of violence in American life and opens a window
into the placement of femininity in World War II consensus culture
and more broadly into the politics of mid-century gender and family
life.
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