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Clues (2013) - Melancholy Elephants: Hitchcock and Ingenious Adaptation

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  • article: Melancholy Elephants: Hitchcock and Ingenious Adaptation
  • author(s): Ken Mogg
  • journal: Clues (01/Apr/2013)
  • issue: volume 31, issue 1, page 13
  • journal ISSN: 0742-4248
  • publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc
  • keywords: Film adaptations, Motion pictures, Novels

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Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock films such as Marnie and Young and Innocent represent a world that is equivocal. Highly ingenious and imaginative, they enable the spectator, much like the character Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest, to re-engage with that world and come "alive."