MIT 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2013
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Instructor: David Thorburn

Shadow of a Doubt and Rear Window show how Hitchcock films can be considered a genre all their own. Main themes: divided self (good/evil, masculine/feminine), attractiveness of evil, nature of cinema entertainment, double plots (story & metastory).

00:00 OCW Intro
00:25 Hitchcock as its own genre
05:24 Perspectives on these two films
17:33 Shadow of a Doubt
37:33 Rear Window

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