Camera Obscura (1996) - Violent vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the disappearing woman

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• article: Violent vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the disappearing woman
• author(s): Karen Beckman
• journal: Camera Obscura (01/Sep/1996)
• issue: issue 39, page 78
• journal ISSN: 0270-5346
• keywords: "Hitchcock as Activist: Politics and the War Films" - by Sam P. Simone, "The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock" - by Raymond Durgnat, Alfred Hitchcock, Chicago, Illinois, David Bordwell, Ethel Lina White, Foreign Correspondent (1940), François Truffaut, Frenzy (1972), Googie Withers, H.G. Wells, Karen Beckman, Linda Williams, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Raymond Durgnat, Saboteur (1942), Sam P. Simone, Slavoj Žižek, The Lady Vanishes (1938), Tom Gunning, Universal Studios

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Abstract

The genre of the vanishing woman that permeated films in the 1930s is discussed. Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" and Veit Harlan's "Verwehte Spuren" are examined.