Hitchcock's Diegetic Imagination: Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock's Mise-en-Scene
Nov 2015 · McFarland
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The author considers the collaboration between Thornton Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and examines the influence of Wilder's theories of theatrical abstraction and cinematic realism on Hitchcock's developing sense of mise-en-scene. Wilder helped Hitchcock employ mise-en-scene as a vital tool of suspense, thus producing a thriller that turned as much on details of properties and setting as on narrative or visual devices.
This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 31, Issue 1.
About the author
Donna Kornhaber is assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches film. She has published on topics ranging from British film noir and literary adaptation to early animation. Her current book project is a study of Charlie Chaplin as a director.
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