Book chapter
The Father-Daughter Plot: Shadow of a Doubt, Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock, p67
The University Press of Kentucky
05 Feb 2015
Abstract
Critics have long noted contrary and self-contradicting impulses in Hitchcock’s films. Lesley Brill explains these impulses in archetypal terms, as the result of the interpellation of mythic motifs. William Rothman sees a drive to both reveal and hide the fact of authorship. Feminist psychoanalytic critics focus on what they see as Hitchcock’s ambivalence toward women. What all these approaches share is a basically static understanding of conflict as an oscillation between extremes which seek continually to counter each other.¹ Far from discerning such oscillation, I see a systemic progression in Hitchcock’s work. Conflict and contradiction arise not out of a
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- Title
- The Father-Daughter Plot
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Alfred Hitchcock, p67
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836336004721