The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All
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In the world of Alfred Hitchcock, resemblance is fatal. It is the story of “Vertigo,” of Charlie, in “Shadow of a Doubt,” named for a beloved uncle who turns out to be a notorious murderer of wealthy widows. Think of the falsely accused men in “The Lodger,” “The Wrong Man,” “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” “I Confess,” “North by Northwest” and “Frenzy.”
Of course, there was no one to resemble
him. With his uniform of dark suits, his Victorian manner, he was a relic in his own time. Only Mickey Mouse cut a more distinctive profile. And for all the influence of his films, he has no real inheritors, no one who combines silence, suspense and wit in that particular way, with his winking self-referentiality and the thicket of fetishes and symbols that became a grammar of their own the stai
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