Film Quarterly (2012) - Timing and Vulnerability in Three Hitchcock Films

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• article: Timing and Vulnerability in Three Hitchcock Films
• author(s): Marta Figlerowicz
• journal: Film Quarterly (01/Mar/2012)
• issue: volume 65, issue 3, pages 49-58
• DOI: 10.1525/FQ.2012.65.3.49
• journal ISSN: 0015-1386
• publisher: University of California Press
• keywords: "Que Sera, Sera" - by Doris Day, Alan Napier, Alec McCowen, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster, Covent Garden, London, Diplomatic & consular services, Doris Day, Ethics, Filmmakers, Frenzy (1972), James Stewart, Jean Marsh, Jon Finch, Louise Latham, Marnie (1964), Marta Figlerowicz, Notorious (1946), Scotland Yard, Sean Connery, The Birds (1963), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Works

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Abstract

This essay studies three Hitchcock films (The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Marnie (1964) and Frenzy (1972)) to argue that their character construction-especially their construction of characters' vulnerability-is structured around patterns of timing or mistiming. It also asks more broadly what this formal choice can tell us about these films' treatment of ethics.