Excellent analysis. Hitchcock's roles for women are fascinating and multi-layered.

Hitchcock does not exclude or reduce women, he gives them the same spindly set of tangled motivations as the male characters opposite them. In fact, Hitchcock capitalizes on the habit of writers and directors to limit the scope of their female characters, taking the audience by surprise when his women act outside of the rigid tracts we’ve come to expect. Marion Crane acts impulsively, and from the opening scene we witness her battling between the woman…
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Simon Dillon
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Excellent analysis. Hitchcock's roles for women are fascinating and multi-layered.
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Written by Simon Dillon
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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