12/26/2023 0 Comments Shadow of a doubt film techniques![]() ![]() “In a dazzling close reading of the film, Diane Negra peels off Rockwellian veneer layer by layer. 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. Analysing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship, social history, homesickness and ‘family values’, she 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. In this path-breaking book, Diane Negra redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to Shadow even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship. 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.
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