It has been the subject of many Freudian and Oedipal readings in the context of its predecessor, Rebecca and other paranoid women’s films of the era.Ĭohen finds that the film relates to Hitchcock’s exploration of a Victorian family ideal and believes that the director considered himself a Victorian bourgeois (Cohen, 1995: 68). He claims that, “to read the film as a feminist film requires the recognition that in destroying her uncle, Charlie denies the validity of bother her earlier-held patriarchal visions: man as knightly rescue from family oppression and man as satanic destroyer of transgressing women” (Hemmeter: 228). A notable exception is Thomas Hemmeter, who reads Shadow of a Doubt “as a critique of the patriarchal ideology it represents” (Hemmeter: 221). The Hitchcock oeuvre has regularly been debated as the site of patriarchal ideology. The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Part Two, Gone Girlīy Elaine Lennon Volume 27, Issue 1-2 / February 2023 78 minutes (19414 words)
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