The multiple relations in H’s work between the 3 realities: everyday, desire, intellectual The vehicle for linking these worlds allowing them to communicate: Spectator with the screen Everyday world with world of desire is the intellectual world Role of transmission, the car, train, boats, bikes, wheelchairs 3. The 3rd reality is the intellectual world, the […]

Hitchcock’s notion of the extreme importance of the call, symbolized by telephone:

Alfred L. Werker, prolific director, from 1930 to 1957, with 50 features to his credit.

He found commercial and critical success in the late forties directing Susan Hayward in two of her breakthrough performances: Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947), her first Oscar nomination, and the commercial hit Tulsa (1949).

July 16, 2022 Type Intellectually inferior, but sexually unattractive bespectacled woman, with insight inti what remains hidden or unknown t others. Shadow: sister of Young Charlie, haughty Spellbound: Ingrid Bergman, the bespectacled woman who knows too much Strangers on Train: Ruth Roman’s sister (played by H’s daughter) Vertigo: Midge, Scottie’s ex-fiancee Wrong Man: bank teller […]