... a complex web of genres, narrative templates, tones and styles. It is a film which ingeniously mixes the visual iconography and archetypes of horror, a nascent film noir and a Capraesque domestic comedy, and is widely regarded as Hitchcock's breakthrough Hollywood picture, his first film attempt to fully come to terms with both American culture and Hollywood cinema. As such ... (look out for the ring). Throughout, Hitchcock brilliantly undermines the staples of family, marriage, money and the law by demonstrating the close geographic, stylistic and psychological proximity of genre, object...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate