Hitchcock as an auteur

• Dolly zoom
• Dual identities
• Mirrors - dual identities
• Stairs + spirals
• Cameos from HC
• Lighter cameras (new hollywood)
• Self reflexive
• German expressionism influences
• Soviet montage influences
• Hitchcock 'blondes'
• Emasculated male protagonist
• Technicolour to evoke emotionn
• Voyeurism (watching)
• Pure cinema
• The perfect murder
• HC: –“Murder, mayhem, violence, sex, beautifully, pictorially expressed, lovely costumes, perfect cutting, and err … a joke or two.”
• Master of suspense
• Identity: mistaken, search for
• 'The wrong man'
• Running from something
• Feeling trapped
• Mistrust of the justice system
• Fear of authority
• Coincidence / fate
• Illusion vs Reality
• Likable villains
• The everyman
• Aloof female blondes
• Macguffin: A plot device that is the main reason for the conflict in a story.