![]() ![]() Heldref Publishing Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) Heldref Publications Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0195-6051), Journal of Popular Film and Television, 3, 44, pages 159-168, 2016 jul 02. including his personal favorite Shadow of a Doubt (1943). The viewer usually just prefers sitting on his seat, enjoying the ride - and it is exactly this where lies Hitchcock's sheer mastery and macabre thought, which often seems to be close to misanthropy. Hitchcock at War: Shadow of a Doubt, Wartime Propaganda, and the Director as Star. Hitchcock made several films with big Hollywood stars, including four with Cary Grant in the. Although I am sure that one can immerse into the poetic world of the film without accepting Hitchcock's ethics, this doesn't make it any less vital, quite on the contrary, because Hitchcock's films' cruel world view always includes us, the audience, making it even harder to accept. It is precisely metaphysical, as the Cuban critic Guillermo Cabrera Infante once suggested, and always connected to the director's cynical philosophy. ![]() First and foremost, Strangers on a Train entices the viewer with its gripping atmosphere, but, as usual, the suspense is never mere suspense in its physical meaning for Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock often approached the theme of human and moral dichotomy through dialectical means to present reality in his films, but never as visually as in Strangers on a Train (1951) which is one of his most celebrated works. ![]()
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